Henrietta Lacks‚ but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors‚ yet her cells- taken without knowledge- become one of the most important tools in medicine (Rebecca Skloot). According to the scientists who have been growing HeLa for countless experiments‚ if you could pile HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale‚ they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons- as much as Empire State Buildings (The NY Times). Long times ago‚ even
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Should animals be used for research? (Seminarski rad) Predmet: Engleski jezik III Mentor: Student: Mr.sc Kristina Varcaković Marijana Gavrić Brčko‚ 2013. Every year‚ millions of animals undergo painful suffering or death as a result of scientific research into the effects of drugs
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1. INTRODUCTION This report aims to show the views of those who think that animals should not be used for experimentation of new drugs and those who think that animals should be used for experimentation of new drugs. 2. THE ISSUE AND BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Experiments done on animals i.e. non-human animals is said to be animal experimentation. The main reasons for animal experimentation are developing new drugs and studying of different diseases using animal as a model. The tortures‚ the increase
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Legalization of Medical Marijuana Marijuana is not like other helpful drugs that have amazing medical benefits. It is not made available to thousands of patients that could gain quality of live from it. Many Americans are forced to use second rate drugs to help them deal with conditions such as nausea‚ glaucoma‚ chronic pain‚ and multiple sclerosis. Why does the “world’s best health care system” use drugs that are not as effective as marijuana‚ but have more side effects? The United States
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Medical marijuana‚ and just plain marijuana should be illegal in all of the United States because it is a very hazardous and toxic drug. According to Peter Bensinger a co-author of “Marijuana: A Reference Handbook” says that‚ “marijuana has 468 different and toxic chemicals‚ causing a 40% increase to more cancer causing than tobacco cigarettes‚ and four times the tar of tobacco cigarettes.” And then New York Times argues that‚ “stems from the fact that many otherwise law-abiding citizens use marijuana
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Human Embryonic Kidney(HEK) 293 cells were transiently transfected with pEGFP-N1(Clontech‚ Palo Alto‚ CA‚ encoding enhanced GFP as an indicator of transfection) and pEGFP-LeIF plasmids cloned at previous studies(Ghafarifar and et al‚ in press) by Calcium phosphate and non- tranfected cells was used as negative control. briefly‚ Hek-293 cells were grown at 37°C in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM‚ Gibco) supplemented with 10% Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS‚ Gibco) and 5% CO2. Log-phase cells were employed
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Sclerosis Is Being Treated With Stem Cell Based Therapy Multiple sclerosis or MS is a very difficult disease to live with. It affects vision‚ hearing‚ memory‚ and balance. According to the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (2013) multiple sclerosis is usually diagnosed in women twice as much as men and affects people between the ages of 20 and 40. MS is a disease that influences nerve cells in the spinal chord and brain. In a healthy body‚ nerve cells send messages to the brain and the
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Embryonic Cloning and the Impact on Our Life Michael Opper Professor: Catherine Datte History and Methods of Science 014016 May 22‚ 2008 Embryonic Cloning and the Impact on Our Life Human embryonic cloning has become one of the most debated subjects in terms of moral and medical issues since its development. Recently‚ South Korea has made advances on human embryonic cloning. Human embryonic cloning has many benefits on improving medical knowledge. Research of Advanced Cell Technology
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CELL PHONE SHOULD BE BANNED Cell phone is the most effective device around the world.Not only the people who work somewhere but also adolescents use it.Using a cell phone causes some problems among youth.My opinion is that cell phones should be banned at high schools. To begin with‚as the whole researchers have mentioned‚cell phones are bad for health‚especially the young ones.The most bad effect of using cell phone is that cell phones affect on human brain‚such as headache.However
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Jennifer Laird English 1101 Medical Marijuana In “Medical Marijuana Should Be Legal”‚ by Daniel J. Pfeifer‚ the author states what he thinks justifies medical marijuana being legal. I disagree with that completely‚ because medical marijuana has no proven medicinal values to make it a legal form of medication. The article states that‚ “marijuana use‚ especially by terminally ill patients‚ mitigates their suffering from unnecessary chronic and unbearable pain that persists until death.” Marijuana
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