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Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn's Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of chronic disorders that cause inflammation or ulceration in the small and large intestines. Most often IBD is classified as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease but may be referred to as colitis, enteritis, ileitis, and proctitis. Ulcerative colitis ...

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The Safety Of Blood

A five-year old girl is riding down the street, on her way to her best friend's house. She doesn't have a care in the world and is quietly humming to herself. Suddenly a car whips around the corner and swerves to avoid the child, but he looses control and squarely hits the girl, causing the her ...

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Gene Therapy 2

In research facilities all around the world scientist are attempting to stop diseases at their very roots. Instead of trying to find drugs to cure illnesses they are trying to change the genes that cause the diseases. The process by which this is done is called gene therapy. Gene therapy is the ...

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Shots

At one point or another in every person’s life he or she will get sick. In order for one to naturally get better, the body will send out the white blood cells to fight the illness. We are amazing creatures in that sense. But what if an illness attacks us and is too swift and strong? Starting at ...

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Genetic Engineering

A Jordanian couple tried four times to have a baby and to start a family. All four times resulted in devastating miscarriages, and the two were left wondering if it was even possible to achieve their goals. Finally, in 2005 they had their first baby. However, she was diagnosed with Leigh syndrome ...

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New Worlds For All: Indians, Europeans, And The Remaking Of Early America

The Indians were the first people to be referred to as “Americans”, but by the time of the American Revolution the name no longer referred to Indians but to the colonist. The colonist were called Americans and not Europeans because their culture became a mixture between Indian and European ...

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Genetic Engineering: A Leap In To The Future Or A Leap Towards Destruction

Science is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time from an analytical engine, to a calculator, to a computer. However, science, in the past, has always remained ...

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A Look At Anemia Related To Nutritional Issues

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Genetic Engineering, History And Future: Altering The Face Of Science

Science is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time from analytical engine, to calculator, to computer. But science, in the past, has always remained distant. It ...

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The Immune System

is a group of cells, molecules, and tissues that help defend the body against diseases and other harmful invaders. provides protection against a variety of potentially damaging substances that can invade the body. These substances include disease-causing organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, ...

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The Promise Of Genetic Engineering

A girl is born without Tay-Sachs disease, a devasting genetic disorder that has decimated a lot of babies worldwide. A leukemia patient has defective bone marrow replaced with healthy bone marrow that was cloned from tissue from her own cells. These futuristic scenarios are not part of the ...

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Premarital Sex

ual intercourse in a serious problem in today's society. Having sexual intercourse before marriage is something that, based on research, needs to be stopped. Sex before marriage can lead to sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Syphilis, and Gonorrhea. ...

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Bacteria

are the most successful organisms on Earth. The earliest found fossils of date back to 3.5 billion years ago. This makes them the oldest group of organisms. Today can be found in anything, even in the hardest living conditions. can live 1,200 ft. under the ice in Antarctica and some can even ...

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AIDS History And Treatment

In 1981 a man in Los Angeles was diagnosed as having a rare form of pneumonia, known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. He had a very low number of T-4 helper cells, and died soon after. The doctors were puzzled at the time, but they would later discover that this was one of the first cases of a ...

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Genetic Engineering, History And Future

Altering the Face of Science Science is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time from analytical engine, to calculator, to computer. But science, in the past, has ...

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Genetic Engineering. 2

Genetic Engineering, history and future Altering the Face of Science. Science is a creature that continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from tree-shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time from analytical engine, to calculator, to ...

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Heart Attacks And Its Causes

For years, heart attacks have struck fear into the eyes of Americans. All cardiovascular diseases together are the widest cause of death in the country, with heart attacks alone accounting for about twenty-three percent of all fatalities (Staff,1997). Doctors have tried to reduce this risk over ...

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Mononucleosis 2

Mononucleosis is a disease caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which is a member of the herpes family. The herpes family also includes viruses that cause cold sores, chicken pox, genital herpes, and birth defects (7). Mono, short for mononucleosis (3) “gets its name from the fact that ...

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Rabies

Perhaps the best-known animal-borne disease, Rabies, or Rage is caused by a Rhabdovirus, a type of virus named for its rod like shape. It is also caused by a ‘Lyssavirus’. This group of viruses includes the Rabies virus traditionally associated with this disease, Australian bat lyssavirus, ...

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Sexual Education

“A mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity.” Different people will disagree about the veracity of this statement, but we know that it does not reflect the experiences of the majority of young people. Yet sex education ...

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