Essays

The structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, was first described in 1953 by a paper in the journal Nature and authored by James Watson and Francis Crick. Based on chemical, x-ray diffraction, and structural studies, DNA was described to be …

The results of genetic studies confirmed what Gregor Mendel already published on the Mendelian theory of inheritance way back in 1865 (Mendel, 1865). Mendel was an Austrian monk who studied hereditary patterns in garden peas. He conducted several pollination and …

DNA recombinant technology is a field of molecular biology where DNA scientists are able to splice DNA and can recreate it in another organism for the purpose creating copies of the original DNA set. Synthetic molecules are created which are …

Why is human embryonic stem cell research important yet very controversial? As specific type unspecialized cells that can be isolated from virtually all multicellular organisms, embryonic stem cells present medicine and biomedical science with important and unique properties of self …

If embryonic stem cell research is legalized today, more than one hundred million Americans will directly benefit from various stem cell therapies. This number includes patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, type I and type II diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer, …

The two essays “Guess Who’s Coming to Therapy” and “The New Research Agenda for a Cultural Psychology” address the issues of race and ethnicity as they apply to two different ways of collecting relevant data by scientific means from individuals, …

People with disabilities should not be discriminated in the society as they have capabilities that that can help institutions to achieve their dreams. Whereas it is obviously considered to be highly unethical, many of the institution are highly discriminative of …

One primary emotional effect of hypertension on an individual is the feeling of disappointment as he has been diagnosed to have an elevated blood pressure. He may also feel that he neglected taking good care of his body in the …

Childhood development is something that occurs in all walks of life, regardless of whether or not the environment is ‘normal’ or not. The development of children is therefore dependent on the environment into which they are socialized as well as …

Abdominal pain is one of the commonest presentations encountered in both the outpatient clinics and in emergency rooms (Dominitz, Sekijima, & Watts, 2009). The magnitude of the burden, both economical and social, of this presenting feature can be gauged from …