Essays Tagged: "embryos"

The Hormonal Control of Sexual Development

ne which causes such a differentiation. In order to confirm this belief, he removed the gonads from embryos, prior to the onset of phenotypic differentiation. All resulted in female phenotypes. The ma ...

(2 pages) 31 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Techne in a Brave New World by Huxley, an essay about the ballance of technology and humanities - with referances to Brave New World and different articles

where babies are manufactured on an assembly line and put into a social class while they are still embryos in a test tube. As children they are engineered to be content with their rank in this world ... efit. They have created with their hands without using their head or heart. Scientists toy with the embryos, cutting off oxygen to those predestined to become lower caste members. Those chosen to work ...

(2 pages) 195 0 3.7 Aug/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

stem cell research

enormous yet legally and morally controversial. The ES cells are obtained from aborted fetuses and embryos donated by couples undergoing in vitro fertilization. The use of ES cells raises concerns ab ... in vitro fertilization. The use of ES cells raises concerns about the respect of human life- should embryos be created to be destroyed? To obtain certain ES cells for certain patients an embryo would ...

(1 pages) 168 2 3.5 Aug/2002

Subjects: Science Essays

Genetic diversity in agriculture

eding as I described above, but it also applies to the freezing and the storage of animal sperm and embryos for use in animal husbandry or artificial insemination.An understanding of crop origins and ...

(3 pages) 69 0 4.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Genetic diversity in agriculture

eding as I described above, but it also applies to the freezing and the storage of animal sperm and embryos for use in animal husbandry or artificial insemination.An understanding of crop origins and ...

(3 pages) 57 1 3.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Stem Cell Research.

ed from both embryonic and adult tissues. Human embryonic stem (ES) cells are found in newly formed embryos that may be produced through in-vitro fertilization. Adult stem cells are dispersed througho ... benefits, the origin of ES cells has led to an ethical debate about using cells derived from human embryos, along with the appropriateness of using federal funding to support the process. In addition ...

(3 pages) 138 1 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology

This essay is how to clone.

Since the late seventies scientists have been cloning mammals using cells taken from embryos. In July 1996, medical history was made when a sheep named Dolly was cloned. The only thing ...

(5 pages) 71 1 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Should Cloning be Ban?

to fight diseases and create organs artificially. Once specialized cells can be derived from cloned embryos the following diseases threatening millions of people on earth can be treated:Brain disorder ... lthy humans. In November 2001, American researchers claimed to have produced the first cloned human embryos, though they reportedly reached only a six-cell stage before they stopped dividing and died. ...

(2 pages) 55 2 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Designer Babies Essay.

iagnosis to help couples who want to have a baby of a specific gender, but also to detect unhealthy embryos.Embryos that show normal development are biopsied with micromanipulation techniques involvin ... esting using either PCR-based DNA amplification, or fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). Those embryos considered to be unaffected on the basis of this testing will then be available to be transf ...

(3 pages) 76 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

The Cost of Stability in Brave New World - Freedom (with works cited)

ey are now decanted in bottles passed through a 2136 metre assembly line. Pre-natal conditioning of embryos is an effective way of limiting human behaviour. Chemical additives can be used to control t ... since there is no need to make every female fertile, only "as many as thirty per cent of the female embryos ... develop normally. The others get a dose of male sex-hormone ... Result: they are decante ...

(16 pages) 118 0 3.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Economical Issues in Health Care

ay undergo. Consequently, a couple's financial status may affect a physician's judgment on how many embryos to transfer. Economical and ethical issues are also present in the area of egg donations. As ... a tremendous amount of pressure on both the couple and the physician to transfer a large number of embryos on one occasion, because the couple only has enough financing for one IVF attempt. The risk ...

(7 pages) 404 0 4.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Gentle persuasion

ins unconvinced the consequences will be dire. The mother may immediately and repeatedly reject new embryos- in which case she will be infertile. If the mother's immune system takes a little longer to ...

(3 pages) 57 2 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

ineering and conditioning possible. Humans are mass produced using the Bokanovsky process, in which embryos are formed in test tubes on reservations. One of the threats of this genetic breeding is tha ...

(3 pages) 75 1 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Stem Cell Research Argument

erative diseases, can potentially grow into any type of human tissue. Stem cells are extracted from embryos which some Pro-life activists view as a human person. Even though the research is controvers ... each year and live a crippled life if we weren't to cure their diseases. There are many undeveloped embryos out there that are going to be discarded anyways so why put them to waste. In reality the tr ...

(2 pages) 135 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology

Should stem cell research be permitted? To what extent, if any, should possible benefits of this research be thought of as over-ridding any moral objections some might have to such research?

nd cure diseases and ailments. It is hotly debated because the stem cells that are used are derived embryos, which when removed kill the embryo. The surplus embryos from fertility clinics that are no ... embryos from fertility clinics that are no longer needed and are destined to die are the source of embryos. The pro-life movement claims that stem cell research is not permissible because it involves ...

(6 pages) 384 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Embryo Ownership: Men's and Women's Rights

e woman, resulting in pregnancy. Lately, there has been much argument and debate about ownership of embryos, especially under certain circumstances, such as death or divorce. The absence of laws regul ... feel the need to bring about the Roe v. Wade case to argue their right to the cryogenically frozen embryos. This is illogical and there is no reason for the case to be brought up in a dispute about w ...

(5 pages) 43 0 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Embyronic Stem cell research Evaluate Embyronic Stem Cell research..

. This essay will evaluate the method of stem cell research. Stem cells are extracted from unwanted embryos from infertile couples who are trying to conceive. Once the couples have had the treatment t ...

(3 pages) 194 0 4.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Argument Against Cloning

is ethically and morally wrong.The process of cloning inevitably involves throwing away fertilized embryos. At the current stage of development, many of the embryos selected to live fail to develop a ... order to produce Dolly, a single live cloned sheep, scientists had to create over two hundred sheep embryos; all but one died or were thrown away. This is just as, if not more, unethical as abortion. ...

(4 pages) 70 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Technologies and the Family Genetic engineering Discuss how four types of genetic engineering can assist with human reproduction. State and describe how each process is performed.

However, by the time of the first menstrual period after ovulation approximately half of the early embryos have failed to develop. Therefore, the probability of a live birth after exposure in a ferti ... Vitro Fertilization (IVF) The eggs and sperm are collected and the union occurs in a research lab. Embryos are then transferred to the uterus to initiate pregnancy.Any IVF program cannot guarantee su ...

(6 pages) 66 1 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Animal-Human Hybrids

gineering and fuse together animal-human-hybrids.At the Shanghai Second Medical University in China embryos were formed using human cells fused with rabbit eggs. The embryos were destroyed soon after ...

(1 pages) 12 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays