TESTING THE FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF CHROMOSOME 13 IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN BREAST EPITHELIAL CELLS in vitroMathew Thomas, Grade 11 Recent empirical evidence suggests that genomic alterations play a crucial role in breast cancer development. The functionality of genomic alterations is demonstrated b...

Over twenty different types of cancer have been found to exist in the world today. Cancer kills over thousands of people in the United States alone every year. The news constantly contains reports of the many different types of ways a human can get cancer. The main reasons one can get cancer a...

Genetics Engineering Hollywood has been showing it to us for years. Frankenstein, The Six Million Dollar Man, Jurassic Park, etc.; the list goes on. All these movies show man's instinct to create. This fiction of playing God in recent years is becoming a reality. In 1952, deoxyribonucle...

Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international 13 year effort that began in October of 1990. The main objective of the project is to map the entire human DNA sequence. The project was planned to last 15 years, but rapid technological advances have moved the completion dat...

Human Genome ProjectThe Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international 13 year effort that began in October of 1990. The main objective of the project is to map the entire human DNA sequence. The project was planned to last 15 years, but rapid technological advances have moved the completion date ...