A message from Carlos... David C. Amarasinghe Block 1-B Biology January 11, 2000 Quest: Cellular C's Hola Amigos! Me llamo Carlos Plast, but my friends call me Green. Como Estas? Well, you know, A while back I got caught for smuggling, I never figured my old buddy Carlos Phil ...

The idea of a perfect race was first thought of way back during World War II, by Adolf Hitler. He wanted a nation of tall, healthy, intelligent, blonde-haired humans and these were the beginnings of biological engineering. The experiments carried out on the Jews, in the concentration camps, were utt...

LIFE The greater mankind's knowledge becomes, the harder it is to define the idea of life. This difficulty is curious since almost all human beings fell that they know, without any ambiguity, the difference between something alive and something dead. However, our advancing knowledge tells ...

Secrets of a Salty Survivor The Dead Sea is known for its high salt concentration which inhibits life for most organisms. The high salt concentration damages the organism's DNA by depriving the cell from the water they need to keep the structure of its double helix, leading to a faulty DNA s...

Recently, we have all seen the controversy over whether or not we should attempt to clone. If you haven\'t heard: A group of scientists in Scotland announced the birth of a sheep cloned from embryonic cells, presaging Dolly. Dolly\'s was the birth heard round the world. The first mammal ever cloned...

The article highlights the innuendos of President Bush\'s role in the lack of funding for stem cell research and the stiff limitations the field is plagued with. Whether or not you agree with all of the practices of stem cell research, the article is very informative of its uses. It outlines the ind...

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (layu-wen-hook) was born in Delft, a city in the western Netherlands, on October 24, 1632. His father was a basket-maker, while his mother's family were brewers. Antoni was educated as a child in a school in the town of Warmond. In 1676 he serv...

Summary In America, scientific research and technology are advancing every day. Scientists themselves have to read daily to learn the discoveries that have been revealed across the country. These new advances might be the missing link needed to find the cure for a major disease. For medical research...

Human cloning in its simplest form is the artificial process of making a genetic copy of a human being. It is the extraction of one organisms DNA being replicated and grown to be an exact copy of the original. This could mean that at some point in the future, any person could have an identical twin ...

Normally, when a baby is born approximately nine months after being conceived, he or she has all the features of its parents. It is fully developed for life separate from its mother's umbilical cord. It is fascinating how they are formed inside the womb. Beginning from day one, life has started. Em...

In the 1940's the attention of geneticists was surprisingly focused on the Escherichia coli, colon bacterium. E. coli offered many advantages such as genetically being simpler, they are easily broken open and bacterial cells have little internal structure. For the fact that the E. coli populations...

Cloning Is cloning ethical? the majority of the world would say no but the medical research possibilities associated with it are endless. In 1997 when Dolly the lamb was born we began to think, wow if it's possible to clone an animal, why not a human in the future? It soon became known that it was p...

IntroductionGenetic engineering is actually a very new branch or science, and is still in its developing stage. It is said to have first begun when an English scientist saw the cell walls of cork through a microscope in 1655. That spawned an interest in microbiology, which eventually formed the br...

IntroductionGenetic engineering is actually a very new branch or science, and is still in its developing stage. It is said to have first begun when an English scientist saw the cell walls of cork through a microscope in 1655. That spawned an interest in microbiology, which eventually formed the br...