pre-implanation genetic diagnosis.it was created to screen for disease, then used for gender selection. First, genetic screening can reduce amount of serious diseases. Second,the disadvantages of designer babies are health risks and ethical issue. Finally, this is a great opportunity for couples and single adults to have the child they've always desire. First, genetic screening can reduce amount of serious diseases scientist test the fetus to detect various genetic
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this invention because as the time goes by, more and more lives will be taken by this disease. Until today, there are no specific way and treatment to cure this disease and people are struggling since it is one of the disease that could not be cured. Many people say that only miracle could overcome it, but I believe, we, ourself, must work hard to make it really happen. Because cancer is one of the deadliest disease, its medicine must be invented. Moreover, by inventing this medicine, it will indirectly
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Chemotherapeutic treatments are not cures for diseases, they are simply treatments. And yes I used the word diseases and not cancer nor types of cancer. Chemo is used for more than cancer even though it actually cures nothing. One of the most well known diseases that chemo is used to treat (aside from cancers) is an autoimmune disease called lupus. Chemo being used to treat Lupus is better know due to Selena Gomez being diagnosed with Lupus an Autoimmune disease, though some people think Lupus is a try
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What Is Cancer? Have you wondered what cancer REALLY is? Or famous people who have died from it? Cancer is a disease that affects many people. So what is cancer? Cancer is a collection of diseases in the body cells which spread to different cells in the body until they all die. Cancer can come to the body by damage to the DNA or in your genes from other relatives. When cancer spreads to other parts of the body it’s called Metastasis. ( www.cancer.gov ) This next paragraph is about different types
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In the case of an early death, I would not mind being cryogenically frozen, depending on how they do it, I would like to be in my own body again or just a younger version of it depends on my age upon death. Through the use of stem cells I think it would be completely possible to get anybody parts back to full health. I think being cryogenically preserved then being revived and brought back to life would be something cool, I would want to see what the future would be like and see what they do for
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There were many problems that caused mortality in Jamestown but there were some significant ones that were most detrimental. These problems were Jamestown’s drought, food shortages, and Indian attacks. All of these problems were brought onto the English due to Jamestown’s location. To begin, Jamestown’s deaths were influenced by its calamitous drought. This drought was stated in the document “The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts” to have roughly started around 1607 and lasted until about 1613
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genetic disease that I got was Tay Sachs’ Disease. Tay Sachs’ Disease is a disease that destroys your nerve cells and effects your spinal cord. It can effect you in many different ways and eventually can kill you. Tay Sachs’ Disease got it’s name from a British ophthalmologist named Warren Tay. He was treating someone with a cherry-red spot on the retina of their eye when he noticed this disease. It was also named by a New York neurologist named Bernard Sachs. He noticed that that this disease was only
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About 1,228,600 patients had been expected to be diagnosed with cancer last year. This year about 594,800 Americans are expected to die of cancer, approximately 1,600 people every day. Medical Cannabis used to treat these patients are saving lives, giving them the ability to fight back the illness, taking away the pain and bringing peace to those who need it most. Medical Cannabis has helped thousands of people with more than just Cancer, Cannabis helps Epilepsy, Multiple sclerosis, Tumors, Arthritis
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by 20 different states. Those who contracted the infection were mostly between ten months to three years of age and experienced a variety of symptoms including diarrhea, dehydration, and bloody stools. A case study was conducted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the health department across multiple states to determine the source of the outbreak by interviewing patients and parents of the children who were sick. After the study, it was found that there was a high correlation between people
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Muscular Dystrophy Disease diary #2 Today I will be explaining Muscular Dystrophy and all of the types. So let’s start off with what it is. Muscular Dystrophy is an inherited disease that causes muscles to progressively become weaker. In some forms it causes the heart and organs to weaken. Some forms only appear in men but many are in both men and women. There are eight major types of Muscular Dystrophy that I will be explaining next. So let’s move on to see what kind of Dystrophy there is. The
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