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Definition and Diagnosis of WS Genetic Disorder

difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...

An Article on Genetic Testing Reviewed

risk factor, or to become vigilant in getting periodic tests, in the hopes of catching the disease in its early stages; however, t...

Genetic Research, Trend Towards Personalized Medicine

envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...

Ethics of Gene Therapy

have become capable of changing genets. Genetic research is the latest large area of study in the broader field of genetics. While...

Gonadal Dysgenesis

Synopsis Genetic abnormalities often have distinct...

Introduction to Psychobiology

the brain waves. Electrodes are places on the scalp and a machine picks up the shape and types of waves, e.g., alpha waves or beta...

The Impacts of Down Syndrome

Introduction Down syndrome results from a chromosomal anomaly. Instead of a child having the normal twenty chromosomes the...

An Overview of Huntington's Disease

2008, 436). There is no cure for Huntingtons. Genetics The gene for the disease is found on the fourth chromosome (Collins, 19...

Controlling New Technologies

genetic products. This is one of many controversies involving genetic research and a subject that is the concern of one scholar in...

Physical and Physiological Aspects of Tourette's Syndrome

characteristics to be interlaced with short bursts of action potentials (Anthony and Thibodeau, 1983). Because Tourettes Syndrome...

Commodity Chain Description of Corn

had been spotted through much of the corn belt but was replaced by excellent growing conditions (2000). In 2000, there were 79,5...

Curse or Opportunity in Terms of an Alzheimer's Test

carry the gene. Therefore, one might be of the notion that as long as the vast majority favors and accepts the associated compone...

Profiling Sufferers of Color Blindness

the paper a brief overview of what color blindness actually is. Some things that might be mentioned are that color blindness exist...

UK's Policy on Technology

as well as medical miracles. Technology affects everyone and many industries. In honing in on a few major ones, Britains policy ma...

Overview of the Genetic Disorder PWS

genetic cause is loss of yet unidentified genes normally contributed by the father" (Internet source). Information at the PWSAs we...

Genetic Alteration and Ethics

die due to a womans right to choose. Each situation is taken individually but it is really all the same. These situations of human...

Male v. Female Victims of Eating Disorders

"1 teenage girl in 8, and 4% of teenage boys had serious symptoms of anorexia nervosa...

Cloning and the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

manner in order to attain end-E" (Honderich, 1995, p. 436). For example, a person might resolve to pay a bill as soon as it is rec...

Genetic Science and Self Concept

could be toying with the emotions of another future human being? There is also the question of what type of social stigma would b...

Progress of Fat and Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

health. There are morbidly obese people who appear to enjoy being the way they are and actively seek to maintain their stat...

Brook and Tseng's Research on the Correlation Between Negativity and Anger in Toddlers and Drug Use by Parents

regard to how that behavior impacted their child. Under the third hypothesis, the interdependent model hypothesis, parental perso...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Controversy of Applying Genetic Engineering to Foods

the production of GE foods. Lastly, many of the same companies which produce GE pesticide resistant crops are the same companies w...

Sociological Considerations of Genetics Research Effects

study of knowledge and morality in society to ask several ethical, legal and relevant social questions. Traditionally, fed...

Arguing for an Adopted Child's Right to Know Biological Parentage

is to address these two aspects of biological identity as they relate to the human right to know their biological origin. S...

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

21st Century and Technology

long way in the past few decades. While once a pie in the sky idea, many women have birthed babies that have not belonged to them....

Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics

of alcoholics. To prove that children of alcoholics are more likely to physiologically be alcoholic themselves provides added supp...

Human Nature and Selfishness

that mankind is hardwired for selfishness and are a slave to these drives whether we understand or are cognizant of them in the fi...