If your pet dog Sparky became suddenly ill, would you begin to perform experiments on your uncle Waldo to try to find a cure? Probably not, that would be ridiculous. Finding a cure for a nonhuman disease in a human is completely illogical. Yet people across the world have been led to believe that e...

For the Good of Man or Animal?Imagine a world without chemotherapy, organ transplants, joint replacements, and antibiotics. These are just a few of medical wonders developed through animal research. Animal research has been a heated discussion for the past fifty years. Some argue that the researc...

Should Human Cloning be Legalized? The ability to reproduce human beings without sexual reproduction is no longer only an idea to be explored in sci-fi movies and books. After over forty years of research and development, human cloning is quickly becoming a reality. Cloning captured the public...

Cancer: Of Mice and HumansThe many genotypically different carcinomas have one commonality: the metastatic process. The stromal microenvironment surrounding neoplastic cells influences their metastasis-related functions (e.g. adhesion, survival, proteolysis, migration, immune escape, and organ targe...

Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Fat Versus FunctionConjugated linoleic acid, otherwise known as CLA, is a slightly altered isomer derived from linoleic acid; both are classified as omega-6 polyunsaturated acids and both are considered EFAs. So what is it about CLA that sets it apart form the rest of the p...

Julie MallonPsychology 310 Beauty and the Beast : AnorexiaIt seemed to me that the older I got, the more obsessed people seemed about their bodies. Whether it was the diet soda boom of the 80's, or the fact everyone has always been unhappy with his or her natural bodies; it just took me a while to c...