Medical genetics

grit, its genetic and environmental origins. They want to know why individuals differ in grit and why the way they develop their grits are different (Rimfeld, Dale, Kovas and Plomin, 2016). According to Duckworth, a math teacher in middle school and high school, grit can be important as intelligence and can play a more significant role…

illness is still new there has not yet been a full treatment created. However, speech and physical therapy, along with the use of medication some of the symptoms may die-down and become less harsh. Like many other illnesses, this syndrome requires a medical diagnosis, specially prescribed for the child by a doctor (Rett Syn.). Although the medications can help the side effects die-down the cannot eliminate them completely. They can last for many years, or in many cases a lifetime. This means the…

illustrating the idea of a loved one dying due to patenting while also informing how “real”(441) this problem is. Crichton goes on to list more reasons why patenting is unsuitable, like stating that “[g]ene patents are now used to halt research, prevent medical testing, and keep vital information from [patients] and…

A total of seven people reside in the household. I am one of the five children in the home. I was diagnosed with a genetic life-threatening disease called, Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and many other problems such as bronchiectasis, atelectasis pulmonary, chronic sinusitis, pancreatic insufficiency, GERD, hiatal hernia, vitamin E deficiency, and many more. CF is a genetic disease that affects the exocrine glands. Consequently, this disease causes an imbalance at the cellular level between sodium and…

Surrogacy is an Umbrella term. Under which there are there are genetic surrogacy circumstances viz; Genetic surrogacy: involves natural or artificial insemination of a surrogate. If the intended father's sperm is used in the insemination, then the resulting child is genetically related to the intended father and genetically related to the surrogate. If donor sperm is used, the ensuing child is not genetically related to either intended parent but is genetically related to the surrogate.…

Designer Babies Upon the completion of mapping the human genome in 2003, a whole new side of genetic understanding had opened up; better understanding of genetic diseases, how genes affect personality, and with that, the genetic altering of babies. This new concept of “designer babies” has caused great controversy and many of its harmful effects have gone unrecognized. This form of genetic altering research should not be continued because designer babies create more adverse effects on…

symptoms of a urinary tract infection (UTI). Urinalysis, imaging and urodynamic studies are the cornerstones of the diagnosis. Treatment depends largely on the severity of the VUR and may range from surveillance with antibiotic prophylaxis to other medical therapies and/ or surgery. Statistics Affecting up to 2% of the pediatric population, VUR is the…

believe this opposition against the use of GMOs has no foundation and that no overwhelming response supports evidence linking to major downfalls of GMO use. After all, our population demands are overwhelming, which further supports the need for such genetic improvements that continuously prove GMOs are indeed more advantageous than hazardous in human consumption and in health-related issues (Banks,…

The natural sciences are very much paradigmatic in nature. As outlined by Thomas Kuhn, the natural sciences are revolutionary as opposed to “normal”; Kuhn argues that in “normal science”, scientific progress is limited to the scope of the current paradigm itself. Revolutionary science deals with paradigm shifts, in which there is a change in the basic assumptions of a scientific theory. Paradigmatic thinkers, however, are often disregarded and brushed off due to their dynamic views. For example,…

Studies that relate to negative life events have appeared regularly in the psychological, psychosomatic, sociological and clinical medical journals. So much so that the stress from the events have been transferred and correlated with aggravating physical diseases such as cancer and HIV. (Cooper, 1987 and Breet, Kagee & Seedat, 2014). Selye (1956), defined stress as a “general adaptation syndrome,” caused by an “organism’s response to stressful conditions or stressors, consisting of a pattern of…