What are the implications of personal genomes for drug discovery and development ? In the past decade‚ increasing amounts of dollars have been spent on drug development yet the amount of new drugs entering the market per year remains the same. Furthermore with 200 billion dollars of patents expiring in the past four years (Witty‚ 2010)‚ innovative pharmaceutical companies will need to look at new approaches to discover drugs. With the human genome being sequenced in 2003‚ a new field of science
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I agree in theory that the objective method‚ what we now call discovery learning‚ is the most effective way for children to acquire the skills and concepts necessary to become scientifically literate adults. However‚ in many classrooms teachers are still struggling to build a discovery-based science curriculum. There is an urgency today that makes acquiring science skills even more important now than they were before. In this hi-tech age‚ knowing how to acquire and evaluate information and how to
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Was Columbus’s discovery epochal? Many of us have grown up believing from our earliest school years that Christopher Columbus was the voyager who found America. In between the centuries several European explorers navigated around the world searching for treasures and new lands. Of all the explorers‚ Columbus is the most celebrated and acknowledged - for supposedly founding America in 1492. Columbus was born in Italy in 1452‚ of humble origins; he grew up surrounded by
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More so than I expected while reading Joseph Roth’s The Emperor’s Tomb was the extent that class divisions contributed to the cultural climate of pre-1914 Austria. While modern-day scholars may be interested in studying the rise of anti-Semitism‚ especially considering the rise of Nazi Germany in the aftermath of World War I‚ certain passages of The Emperor’s Tomb show that amongst the aristocratic intellectual elite‚ class divisions overcame anti-Semitic sentiment. Class divisions were engrained
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Personal Discovery Essay Overview This essay is intended to guide the student from identifying a problem or situation‚ taking some action in regard to the situation‚ and writing about the experience while supporting/developing their evaluation/analysis with two primary sources. A General Overview: First‚ you will be given a professionally-generated article that addresses a particular topic. This semester‚ the topic will involve health risks. Second‚ you must decide upon an activity after reading
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CHE003 Chemistry Individual Assignment J.J. Thomson – Discovery of the electron Table of Contents Introduction 2 Biographical information 3 Background information 4 Experimental information 5 Impact 6 Conclusion 7 J.J. Thomson – Discovery of the electron Introduction The discovery of the electron is affirmative and justly credited to the English physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson (Weinberg‚ 2003). He had found and identified the electron in Cavendish Laboratory‚ Cambridge
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A discovery I have made in my life is that making mistakes only makes you a better person. Normally when someone makes a mistake‚ it is because that person is inexperienced in whatever they are attempting to do‚ and they are doing it improperly. When we make mistakes we are hopefully learning a very important piece of information‚ what not to do! Life is trial and error‚ we do things wrong and hope we do it better next time. There are many examples of myself making a mistake and in turn never
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Significance of Discoveries in Genetics and DNA Robert Pride South University (Richmond) DNA- (deoxyribonucleic acid) the molecule that genes are made of. In 1953‚ James Watson and Francis Crick made the announcement that they had discovered the secret of life. They made this announcement in a pub in Cambridge. He was referring to the double helix of DNA. The discovery was the result of work put in by a large group of scientist but pieced together by both men who ultimately received most
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Mink‚ who discovered Uranus’ rings. In both cases‚ we have individuals seeking data to further enhance our understanding of the universe and its mechanics. Though they may have been focused on a particular task at the time‚ to suggest that their discoveries were mere accidents would be diminishing to the overall goal of science. Though many had seen Uranus before‚ none of them had noticed its contrasting movement from other distant stars. Even when William Herschel noticed its
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18 March 2014 Oedipus Rex and the Journey of Self-Discovery Those who have the ability of sight are stuck in the darkness of ignorance hidden behind lies and those who do not have the ability of sight are in the light of what the truth reveals. Throughout Oedipus’ journey of self-discovery one will notice how he develops as a character. Oedipus is referred to as a character that shows great pride and temper‚ his quick acts of judgement and fate are the reasons to his downfall as a tragic
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