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    Through the years, people have looked many things in sports such as success, victories, effort, teamwork, persistence, but also losses, resignation, distress, pain and fractures. During the games, some players can be accidently affected. However; some players and athletes do not realize, the harmful and possible consequences that game accidents can cause. Many people think the rules of the games will need to change and be adapted to make sure the athletes are safe, besides in the other hand there

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    setting, all those who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him. By laying his hands on each one of them, he cured them.” (Luke 4:20) Could genetic engineering be the cure they are looking for today? Genetic engineering is “the deliberate modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material.” (Google) The most common genetic disorders are Down Syndrome, Huntington’s Disease, Sickle Cell Disease, and Hemophilia. Modifying genes can help eliminate

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    assisted suicide. I believe if the patient is competent as well as the one who has requested to take this course of action, it certainly can be justified. In addition, I personally believe in quality of life, not longevity. There are many incurable diseases out there, making people’s life intolerable, stealing their sense of life and giving a strong incentive to

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    completely different person (National Library of Medicine (U.S.), 2017, p.5-13). An example of a dominant genetic disorder is Huntington’s disease or HD. Huntington’s disease affects the brain and causes the nerve cells in the brain to breakdown. Once the nerve cells are affected, a person’s physical and mental state will start to deteriorate. Huntington’s disease is incurable and affects people from 30 to 50 years old. Once a person has had HD for more than 10 years, the

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    Genes decide almost everything about our bodies, our eye colors, hair type, hair color, skin color, nose size, even the shape of our ear lobes. Our genes come from our parents, half from your mother and the other half from your father, and are found on our chromosomes which are inside cells. Most of the time everything goes good and the DNA divides successfully but sometimes a genetic disorders occurs, this happens when there is an abnormal biological development. This could be caused when the DNA

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    With people who have sickle cell disease they have two abnormal hemoglobin genes (NIH, n.d.). A person can be a carrier of the sickle cells gene but not have the disease. If someone has the trait mates with someone else who carries the trait their off spring will have a 25% chance of having sickle cell disease, 50% chance of being a carrier of the gene but not having the disease, and a 25% chance of not being a carrier of the mutated gene. The two abnormal

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    and sustainable. Although there are parts of the world that are economically advanced, other countries through out the globe are underdeveloped. Due to this, it results in disease, which ultimately affects the wellbeing of people. Due to a lack of medical practices and resources, death can be inevitable. When reviewing disease in developing countries one must look at he contributing factors, that lead to the malady and death of many individuals; Such factors are, malnutrition, a lack of education

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    Jenna Schade SBI 3U Ms. McCowan March 10, 2016 Genome Assignment How is genomic research beneficial for understanding and or treating diseases? Genomic research is extremely important and beneficial for understanding and treating diseases. The research on this topic grows each and every day as scientists continue to learn new things about our genomes and how they can be helpful in our everyday lives. All humans genomes are essentially the same in all people and that genetic differences make up about

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    these bizarre-sounding diseases do exist in our world. Their existence is undeniably shocking in the medical communities as they are indeed rare, odd, and weird. Necrotizing Fasciitis http://microbiologyspring2010.wikispaces.com/file/view/advanced_necrotizing_fasciitis.jpg/143380157/advanced_necrotizing_fasciitis.jpg http://hardinmd.lib.uiowa.edu/pictures22/dermatlas/Necrotizing_Fasciitis_1_030302.jpg Necrotizing Fasciitis (NF) is a severe but rare flesh-eating disease which is believed to be

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    against the disease. The only way to escape the infection was to avoid contact with infected persons and contaminated objects.(paraphrase) (Therefore, some cities set up the policy to prevent strangers from entering their cities, particularly, merchants and Jews. The discrimination of Jewish population became another major problem. The people laid the blame of the plague at the feet of the Jews.) (There was a limitation on the imported goods to reduce the chances of transmitting the disease). Also, to

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