Biotech

Research on human embryonic stem cells involves ethical issues since it will harming the embryos. The embryonic stem cells become important due to its potential result in treatment diseases such as Parkinson.
Skin Cells into Embryonic Stem Cells
Recently, scientiests in the US and Japan could change mouse skin cells into what appear to be embryonic […]

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Four years after Human Genome Project was completed (2003), James D. Watson, The Nobel Prize winner who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA, got his entire genome map. He has just exposed all of his imperfections to public view. Now, he is taking personal risk due to his genome publicly available.
Will Discrimination Occur?
Genetically-based discrimination […]

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BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the well-known breast cancer-causing genes. However, there are breast cancer-causing genes of non-BRCA families that largely unknown.
Nowadays the researchers in the world try to discover new breast cancer-causing genes, the non-BRCA falimilies, by investigate genes which have a history of breast cancer. In University of Cambridge, for example, the researchers found […]

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