Tenth Blog Response

Talks about rice and iron deficiency in Africa. It is interesting that by modifying two ingredients in plants that we can change the iron content in rice and therein help millions of starving people in Africa. http://dixie.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwTV27CgIxEAyiYC1oWn8gRzbJXXK1eogvLDwfZV5bCqL_j3ungtWy1RQ7zLAsyzA21xWqjLoyADoE8hRvfZQul75WqPvUuebodht33lfLPzVvJmyQ71PWNqvTYi2-YQAignZGuKSy7UJVjKW9CoPUkeCJPZ3LJPAykAYn6O5UmSxXuYgmSiwTgA11RJixIS3UmbMR0mCpkthyAuZsfK0vrbttD5928muLZ__4VDxenLS954XQhXwDrkc1JQ New teats in detecting GMOs’. It is becoming increasingly more difficult to detect the use of GMO’s in our food. With this new challenge comes new ways of testing for this modification. Were do we start? What has been modified, and what baseline if any is there? http://dixie.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwNV3JCgIxDC2i4HlAe_UHOkzb6XZWB3HDg-NyTLejIPr_GDt6CrkFEt7LgyyELKTOImWpW86l98gpYCA0NilwIsvyda472f3WXg56NYwdFvDqKjJKjxnpu_V5uWG_ZwAscGsMEy42SqVskTA99z5wlYIHsEIGbMkxlBStj-Z70Eq3EIEjt4ID3aqYUHLxORmjoE6UTDImFi2CLUVkpGR6c9fe3nfHwa3-bv0qi0_1800R20tdMFk3Hz6tNkk Those against GMO’s. Obviously there are those that are against the modification of our food as well as the modification of any organisms. Messing with nature or the natural way of things is unaccepted by many and they give fact after fact how GMO’s are affecting the health of not only Americans but the entire world population. They paint GMO’s as a destructive approach to humanity. http://dixie.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwY2BQMDZLM0pNMzYzMTQ0TkoC1imJ5onJBhappomWRmnG4Fvn3AIsfLwswnzNXCBHM4FLczchBqbUPFEGOTfXEGcPXVjRGJ-SkwM6Whd0NJk5MDmKMbAAe8ap4gysacAYAtLAUlMcaII4A0eEZXioRaS3H4QrBOPqFYN3MOkVlogDC2lwBOsa6xkAAOh8J_g Identifying and labeling GMO’s. It is important to be able to identify those food sources that have been modified in one way or another. It is difficult to establish what is an original un-molested organism and that of an organism that has been modified in some cases. With the development of these labeling technics we will be able to correctly label organic organisms form those that have been treated with GMO’s. http://dixie.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwY2BQMDZLM0pNMzYzMTQ0TkoC1imJ5onJBhappomWRmnG4Fvn3AIsfLwswnzNXHgQhZObEANTap4og5yba4izhy6saIxPycmJN7IEnWQGTI-GhmIMLMCecao4A2saMIaANLDUFAeaIs7AEWEZHmoR6e0H4QrBuHrF4B1MeoUl4sBCGhzBusZ6BgDrUigB Peoples problem with stem cell research. Obviously most people have a problem with embryonic stem cells because of the question……when does life begin? Some view the destruction of embryos as murder. Another issue is that some are viewed as playing God. http://dixie.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwRV09CwIxDC2i4OB0oF39Az36dW06q4eoJw6eH2Pba0dB9P9jPBWnEAhkSPLeyxBCyFyZLFNWRguhQkBO8dZHDqnyTmbVf52rD7DbwKkxy8kfnOqCDNJtStp6dVys2fcZAIvIMpYFi6uUyG8933GtkvFSZLCdj1p3qJJjFMKg3FUVzngEGTBCOwCXg4sycDEjQ1yoEyWjjIVFi2BLMTkl44s7t3Dd7j9u8XPLR3_4VN6fFLG97wumSv4Coy00-g Uses of adult human stem cells. There is another method that is being used to harvest stem cells. This is with adult cells from bone marrow, umbilical cords, and the farming of stem cells from the nasal cavity and other locations in the adult body. http://dixie.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwRV09C8JADD1EwcFJ0K7-gZb0rk2vs1rELxzq15jrXUZR9P9jWhWn5E0ZEl7yhvCUmhlkHdhglqbGOdkpVFADNuRUajad61x1sNu1Pe1wMfqTWTVWvXCbqLpa1vNV_DUDiO-5KF7Pzopaw4KCBvRyZGi0Bj0Q-9YzmYAzCtwEQu8AwRU5Z-AaKNvMmHSq-qKnQ6QGLH2VKFwbSe1IDS_l-Wivm_0Hjn8weXZ_T8njFQm1d2MRmwTe9iw18Q Stem cell possabilities and lungs. Stem cell research is fairly new and in its infant stage (no pun intended). Scientists are using stem cells on all kinds of injuries and diseases. Among these diseases is lung disease and cancers. The idea is that these stem cells will be used to establish new tissues to replace the tissues that have been damaged. Lung tissue is one tissue in the body that once destroyed, it will not regenerate of repair itself. http://dixie.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwRV27CsJQDL2IgoNTQe_qD7T09j47q0V84WB9jLltMgqi_49pVZzCIUOGJOckQ4gQc-2oQNLOKKVjZE0BD00e0EJZkO6_zlXHsNuE894tJ3-yqhIxwPtU1NXqtFin32cAadNN0WmMBqx2bfSWPHqEUPLuwurvKaBrLWgFhgADu7llrXGE0TSkWuqqzKqZGPJCjVKMiBPLlslWcnApxtfyUofb9vCByQ9mz_7wKXu8JHN7XxepzvI3Tog2jg Potential of stem cells and quality of life. It is hard to understand the drive for stem cell research by those who have never experienced true lose. The possibility that stem cell research can improve the quality of life for millions of Americans as well as Millions more across the globe is a very real possibility. With the right backing from the Federal Government and others around the world, it is possible that stem cells could be the cure for hundreds of diseases as well as hundreds of injuries as well increasing the quality of life for millions! http://dixie.summon.serialssolutions.com/2.0.0/link/0/eLvHCXMwRV27DsIwDIwQSAxMSJCVH0jVxm2TzECFeImB8hjj1GFDQvD_wi0gJusmDz6ddYN9QsygjJoilHmWASLvFG98SC0V3ukIXepcdbDbtT3tysXoL2rVWPToPhF1tTzOV-obBqBubCkKlVtHpvHko3E-IIGJ6Nrn5iVFJmGD7PMa9hK8YSGkQLqN1kLjjEb0wUE2FX021CTFIPJgubLYSm4uxfDizrW9bvYfOP7B5NkdPiWPl2Rt73ihIEnfJL817w

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This weeks read was interesting; I had heard that Hitler at one time was an aspiring artist and that he was homeless and a vagrant at one point in his life. I did not know that the turning point, or the reason that Hitler felt that he would be a great leader came from a five hour symphony that he and his friend attended as youths. It is hard to say weather the world would have been better off if Hitler would have been accepted into art school or if there would have been another leader who would have filled the shoes of Hitler in his absence. The answer to this question we will never know. I agree with Gotschell when he explains that ink is the master of mystery, tears, fear, and triumph! That is the great thing about fiction, we can make it as exciting as we want, the hero can always win, and villain we can understand and sometimes sympathize with them as well. It is no wonder that the human race not only loves fiction and story telling, but needs fiction and story telling. Story telling has become a part of humanity. It is the way we relax and release energy, it is the portrait of our dreams, it is an escape from our mundane lives. Ink to paper is as important to the body as oxygen to blood. Without story telling, without fiction, we as a human race would cease to exist. At least in the way we have become familiar with today! So I agree very strongly with Gotschell that story telling and fiction are not optional but necessary in the human experience. My research with GMO’s is an ongoing process. There are those on both side of this debate to whether GMO’s are good for the future of the human race, and then there are those that claim that GMO’s are the reason that America is the most over weight country in the world, that the morals of the American people are off center. Also thos that support the sciences and that GMO’s are a purer form of organisms and that they are being used in other ways to improve the quality of life not only for Americans but everyone around the world.

The Moral of the Story

In reference to the reading this week “The Moral of the Story” I found it interesting the correlation between religion and biology. Let me explain; religion takes a group of people with the same beliefs and puts them into a group where they can be successful in the way they think a like. The same goes for biologists; by taking like-minded individuals greater ideas can be accomplished and brought to reality. With my second emphasis of human communication I made the connection that all story is communication, it is the way that the story is told as to the impact it will have on an individuals life. But the same can be said for story tellers alike; if like minded individuals are able to come together much like a religious sect, those individuals will give themselves a greater opportunity to be successful. My research project would be to clone each individual so that in the future if you were to encounter any physical defects, you would have a clone that you could take a kidney from, a heart, or any other organ that would be an identical match. There would be doctors and scientists that would be in charge of harvesting, or raising this clone in a healthy environment so that the maximum potential could be taken from your clone and given back to you. This project would also need teachers and others to teach the clone how to read and write, how to communicate with the other clones that were being harvested for other individuals. Of course there are ethics and morals that come into play in this scenario, but we will not get into that. This particular experiment will solve some of the problems we face with disease and sickness. With the success of this experiment you would have an identical twin in the world that you could use for spare parts essentially.

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http://www.eurostemcell.org/factsheet/origins-ethics-and-embryos-sources-human-embryonic-stem-cells http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/pages/basics3.aspx These sites cover many, many different areas from the harvesting of embryos, to the opinions of those that support as well as the opinions of those who appose the use of HESC’s. The scientific findings and the diseases and disabilities that HESC’s are being used to treat. They also cover what a stem cell is by definition, what they are capable of becoming, and the hopes these scientists have for HESC’s. The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy edited by Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, Laurie Zoloth This book talks about public opinion, the science, and ethics behind the use of HESC’s. http://rc.kfshrc.edu.sa/ORA/Continuing%20education/files/17d%20stem%20cells%20scieMedPolitical.pdf The New England Journal of Medicine has put out this article explaining the issues and stigma involved with HESC’s and their use.