Civic Issue: What to do with the advance in genetics
Watson and Crick discovered the double helix form of deoxyribonucleic acid in the 1950s, and the world hasn’t looked back since. DNA is the code to life and what it does makes us who we are. The...
View ArticleHouse of Cards…hasn’t started yet…
*SPOILERS* House of Cards season 3 has not actually started yet, but it will be the topic of this passion blog for this spring semester of 2015. On February 27, Frank and Claire will return for a...
View ArticleUpdate on HoC: 12 More Days! *SPOILERS*
*Major Spoilers Ahead!* Alright so Frank is back in just 12 MORE DAYS!!:) I really can’t wait! Now I am warning you right now that if you do not want to know the extremely juicy details about the...
View ArticleThe Genetics Rant Continues…
I am writing this blog after having a truly intellectually-stimulating discussion with three of my fellow Schreyers Scholars for approximately 2 hours, covering a wide range of things such as chemicals...
View ArticleThis is Late Because…
…I had a busy weekend, but definitely didn’t want to write another passion blog about House of Cards if I hadn’t watched any of the third season yet. But now, I have officially lost my HoC Season 3...
View ArticleRecap of Season 3
I watched almost all of season 3 in the few days of spring break. And by that I mean that I watched 12 of the 13 episodes of House of Cards Season 3 in a two-day period over break. Can … Continue...
View ArticleAdvancements in Lifestyle are just around the corner
The above picture is the picture of an idealized karyotype of the human genome. The 22 pairs of chromosomes above determine what someone will be at their core, as defined by nature, while the final...
View ArticleThe one about process of cloning and the results of it
Dolly the sheep was the first animal that we as a race cloned using a somatic cell. The cloning was done in the conventional way somatic cloning would be done: some of Dolly’s somatic (body) DNA was...
View ArticleProjecting the Events of Season 4…
Alright so we all know how the fourth season of House of Cards will most definitely be happening because season 3 ends with such a ridiculous cliffhanger that there is literally no other alternative....
View ArticleThe Thing One Level Down from Genetics
Well maybe one-two levels down. I’d say genomics, the use of genetics to make changes to genomes is one level down from genetics. The brain, the most advanced organ in our bodies, is starting to be...
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