Genetic Enhancement: Out of Our Reach How would you feel knowing that a child was killed before it even had a chance to live, or knowing that food you are eating can cause some kind of un-curable disease in the next couple of years? As you know, scientists are always researching new products t...

Cloning is defined as a form of genetic engineering in which the DNA of a person, animal, plant, or even a bacterium is used to produce a perfect or near-perfect genetic replica of the original. Abolishing human cloning before it begins, has been a controversial debate since the 1940s. Many research...

Caterpillar Tractor Co. was founded in 1925. After WWI, its first European base was set up in Great Britain. This was the first of a long series of expansion in Europe and abroad to help manage foreign exchange shortages, tariffs, import controls and better serve customers around the world. In 193...

In "Epilogue: Have it Your Way", a section in the book Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser writes that some people are not submitting to the cheap production of meat. He also explains how the meat sold overseas goes through more extensive tests than the United States, to assure that there i...

MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASESThe mitochondrion is the energy manufacturer of the cell. It is equivalent to the engine of a car. These tiny biological machines combine the food we eat with oxygen to produce energy to keep our bodies going. The energy produced by the mitochondria is stored in the form of a c...

One of the most controversial issues facing the United States today is whether or not homosexual individuals should be granted the rights of adoption. A poll was conducted on the Internet asking the question of whether or not gay individuals should be allowed to adopt. Out of approximately 87,000 ...

Successful clone of adult sheep born; clone named "Dolly" after the famous country singerFebruary 23, 1997 Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announce the birth of "Dolly"March 1997 Following the announcement of "Dolly," President Clinton issues a moratorium that bans the use of federal ...

Beginning about 12,000 years ago, the human population began a trend that completely changed the way we, as a race, evolved. For the first time in history, humans pushed beyond the restraints of traditional hunting and gathering, into domestication and farming. It was a change that would not only ta...

Cloning and the United States GovernmentOn February 24, 1997 Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland announced that scientists had cloned an adult mammal for the first time. These researchers removed a nucleus from a mammary gland of a sheep and implanted the nucleus into a sheep's egg with the egg...