Biotechnology Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (152) essays
Biotechnology essays:
Bio engineering
... Escherichia coli, a normally innocuous commensal occupant of the human gut. By inserting a piece of DNA of interest into a vector molecule, a molecule with a bacterial origin of replication, when the whole recombinant construction is introduced into a bacterial ...
Biological patents and biopiracy.
... of the basic criteria outlined by the World Intellectual Property Organization. This argument is clearly illustrated by genetic engineering companies and their patenting practices. They did not create a new species of organisms, but instead they isolated a gene and reinsert it in an organism ...
Irradiation of food
... irradiated food. Purpose: to educate Audience: Consumers Irradiation of food is a controversial topic at the present. Any person who eats is affected and those who are responsible for nourishing their families need to know everything they can about food irradiation ...
Are "stimulant drugs" such as Ritalin effective in treating people suffering with AD/HD?
... needed to work on behavioral modifications. In the past 10 years there has been a serious increase in people taking "stimulants", in Australia between 1991 and 1998, there was a 2400 percent increase in the prescription of ...
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): What's All the Ruckus?
... of yet, those that utilize biotechnology in their supply do not know of GMOs effect on human health in the long run. Most consumers are not worried, but an interesting issue I came across was how transgenic foods could contain the genes of a food the consumer ...
Cloning: A Reproduction Replacement and Cure for the Ill, or Ethical Adversity?
... of the world. It was founded in February 1997, by "Raël", the leader of the "Raelian Movement", an international religious organization, which claims that a human extraterrestrial race, called the "Elohim", used DNA and genetic engineering ...
The Benefits and Risks of Transgenic Crops.
... of transferring the genetic material are needed. Many of such techniques involve genetic engineering or gene recombination that could transfer genetic constructs across biological boundary. Transgenic crops commonly referred, as genetically ...
Should human stem cell research be banned? Medical Ethics term paper discussing both for and against stem cell research also including an introduction, and conclusion.
... United States. Food and safety is something that should be afforded to all human beings. Therefore, location is not a basis for determining human rights. An argument that appears to be very contradictory is the argument for the use of ...
To Kill or not to Kill
... of biological materials from aborted fetuses. The controversy really heated up when new discoveries offer a detailed view of early human development in the 90s (Bettleheim, pg.165). It wasn't until recently the government started funding this research fully along with the private organizations ...
Winning The Battle Against HIV-1
... company in DNA-chip technology has developed GeneChip oligonucleotide probe arrays that are manufactured using a high resolution photolitographic fabrication process adapted from the semiconductor industry, for HIV-1 mutations determinations. The Authors of ...