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Influenza and the Need for Current Vaccines

This paper reviews genetic drift as it occurs in influenza viruses. Vaccines must change yearly in order to address the changing ...

The Genetic and Environmental Components of Asthma

This paper reviews this disease from both the perspective of individual genetic makeup and environmental exposure in order to disc...

FNP Practice, Genetics Counseling

This research paper pertains to family nurse practitioner (FNP) practice and ethical issues in regards to genetic counseling. Thre...

Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a Hypothetical Case Study Overview

This research paper discusses osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), from the point of view of a fifteen-year-old who is hypothetically pre...

Predicting and Treating Alzheimers

This paper explores the genetic and environmental factors associated with this debilitating disease. There are four sources in th...

Person vs. Environment Debate, Behavior Influences

This paper presents the writer/tutor's opinion that neither personal nor environment factors are fully responsible for shaping hum...

Genetics, and the Future, Science Fiction

This research paper pertains to the topic of genetic manipulation and how advancements in this field were predicted by science fic...

The Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Adult Development

This is a paper that contains two pages and considers the influence of culture and genetics in the human developmental process and...

Genetic Influence on Elite Athletic Performance

of the test in making an educated guess as to a childs athletic future when a child is below age 9 (Lite). In other words, the tes...

Report on Genetic Modification of Food

1. Genetically Modified Foods; The Issues In recent years there has been a great deal of attention paid to the concept as well...

How Children Grow Up To Understand Genetic And Gender Differences

of how children understand the genetic implications of gender masculinity and femininity, with a prominent factor being that male ...

Why Employers Should Not Be Able to Do Genetic Testing

states have passed legislation making the practice illegal (Schafer, 2001). One would think that ones blood is private as are medi...

How Cultures Play A Role Where Emotions Are Concerned

only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...

Mass Extinction: Comparison of Flora and Fauna

may be severely affected by this extinction period as early as 2100. PBS reports that, while scientists like David Jablonski belie...

Genetic Research, Trend Towards Personalized Medicine

envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...

Ethics of Gene Therapy

have become capable of changing genets. Genetic research is the latest large area of study in the broader field of genetics. While...

Developing a Genetic Vaccine for Malaria

pathogen"; that is, they have to be able to counter the disease if it mutates (Ivory and Chadee, 2004). As noted above, its been d...

Introduction to Psychobiology

the brain waves. Electrodes are places on the scalp and a machine picks up the shape and types of waves, e.g., alpha waves or beta...

Implantation and Genetics

a whole host of other problems, they are also equipped with the option to choose genetic composition such as gender. "We currentl...

Behavior and the Influence of Genetics

to the effects on human behavior, not the least of which include community, family, substance addition, divorce, deviant behavior,...

New Jersey Law and Genetic Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

An Article on Genetic Testing Reviewed

risk factor, or to become vigilant in getting periodic tests, in the hopes of catching the disease in its early stages; however, t...

An Article on the Disclosure of Genetic Test Results Critiqued

receiving this news may encounter difficulty forming family members due to the implications of such results. As disclosing this g...

Criminal Behavior and Genetics

severe form of antisocial behavior" (Liu, 2004, p. 93). Externalizing behavior can also include hyperactivity, and many hyperacti...

Genetic Diversity and Extinction

randomness of change, and then by the belief that evolution is shaped by changes in gene frequencies that are linked to concepts o...

Genetic Research and Social Issues

genetic mapping and gene sequencing (Pelletier and Dorval, 2004). As a result of these new genetic engineering techniques, the st...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

Discussion of Bioethics Involving Parents and Controlling an Unborn Child's Genetic Composition

in essence a mistake. The human genome mapping can now identify specifically which genes carry which genetic disorders; scientist...

Overview of House Pseudomonas aeruginosa Are Incapable of Invading Epithelial Cells

In eight pages this paper examines research in the area of perhaps through genetic alteration inhibit this invasive disease causin...

Happiness for an Individual and the Determinants of Genetics

In five pages this paper discusses how one's happiness can be influenced by genetic factors that often determine an individual's b...