Our environment has been bombarded with toxins since the Industrial Revolution. Everything from cigarette smoke to the plastic factory down the road contaminates the air, water, and land causing harm to all living organisms. Monitoring and controlling toxins is the first step to removing them. Afte...

As a nation, we are constantly trying to increase the amount of goods we produce and the amount of time they are able to last. From adding preservatives to our food, to injecting cows with hormones to increase their size, to even larger gas tanks on our cars for better gas mileage. We can genetica...

Genetic engineering is a technique used by scientists to transform the DNA (deoxyribose nucleic acid) of living organisms. DNA is the blueprint for the individuality of an organism. The organism relies upon the information stored in its DNA for the group of every biochemical process. The life, growt...

Begun in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. The project originally was planned to last 15 years, but effective resource and technological advances have accelerated the expected completion date to 2003...

Genetically Engineered Foods: Good or Bad for You? An issue that has entered the media in a lot of countries, including the United States, is the genetic engineering of food. Genetic engineering is a laboratory technique used by scientists to change the DNA of living organisms. The life, grow...

The Humane Genome Project was an international and collaborative effort whose goal was to complete the mapping of the genes of all human beings. Genome is the word that encloses all of our genes. In a way, the HGP was the culmination of years and years of genetic research since 1911. The hereditary ...