animal experimentation. There are many benefits of using animals in testing but there are many drawbacks to it like the increase in the number of deaths of animals and also the pain and torture put on animals. New technologies like micro-dosing‚ in-vitro and organs-on-a-chip are replacing animals in testing because of the safety‚ accuracy‚ less time consumption‚ cheap and most important it is a painless procedure. To decide whether testing of drugs on animals should be continued or stopped more research
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In Vitro is an example of an alternative method. In Vitro is when u test cell cultures in a Petri dish‚ this testing is more relevant than animal testing because human cells can be used. They get human volunteers and they analyze their blood. Paul Furlong‚ professor of clinical neuroimaging at Aston University‚ says that it is very hard to create an animal model that is even equivalent to humans (“Experiments”). That is why we should use the Vitro method‚ because it is much
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alternative‚ the process of conducting this experimentation is too complex to be used globally; but there are other means of animal testing alternative. One of the disadvantages of using in vitro is that it does not decrease in the number of animals killed. Although in vitro uses only a small amount of an animal’s body part‚ it does not necessarily mean that theses animals are not killed. Important organs may be needed for testing‚ and to retrieve it‚ scientists
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“Mom! Why was I not a designer baby?” “Well‚ sweetie‚ your father and I did not have the money to design our own child like all of our friends were doing at the time.” “I’m not as smart as all of the other kids in my class. I cannot run as fast as they can‚ and I cannot play an instrument like all of them can. I’m stupid! And it is because you did not design me to be any of those things‚ so now I am not good at anything!” Sadly‚ this is probably what the world’s new generation of children would
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Exploring the Moral Fortress The controversy of stem cell research raises concerns of immorality as well has benefit of humanity. The immorality possesses a strong basis in religion and principals of life while the benefits of humanity overlook or prove morality on the basis of cost-benefit analysis. Religion and personal beliefs of life create the immorality argument. On the other hand‚ religion also creates an argument proving forms of cloning were biblically permissible along with research
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EXSITU AND INSITU CONSERVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS INTRODUCTION India ranks sixth under world’s twelve mega bio-diversity zones. Out of these‚ two ofthem exist in our country. India possesses tremendous ecological bio-diversity. Itcontains 5 % of the world’s bio-diversity on 2 % of the earth’s surface. Thebiodiversity in our country is unique in nature and its in-situ and ex-situ conservationis very well needed. In recent years‚ the global demand of herbs has led to a quantumjump
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recognizes and cuts up DNA (including that of certain phages) that is foreign to a bacterium. 4. Restriction site – A specific sequence on a DNA strand that is recognized as a cut site by a restriction enzyme. 5. Recombinant DNA – A DNA molecule made in vitro with segments from different sources. 6. Sticky ends – A single-stranded end of a double-stranded DNA restriction fragment. 7. Cloning vector – An agent used to transfer DNA in genetic engineering. A plasmid that moves recombinant DNA from a test
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many food crops‚ especially rice‚ and utilizing new technologies such as mutation induction and tissue culture techniques to produce crops that can maintain consistent yields in years when water is limiting. Simulation of drought stress under in vitro conditions during the regeneration process constitutes a conventional way to study the effects of drought on the morphogenic responses (Sakthivelu et al.‚ 2008). Polyethylene glycol (PEG) of high molecular weights have been long used to simulate drought
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inhibitory effect of glucose utilization using specific standard in vitro procedure. Plant material was subjected to the extraction preparation by soxhlet apparatus by using various solvents such as aqueous‚ ethanol‚ chloroform‚ petroleum ether and hexane. The various kinds of phytochemicals were detected and then in vitro antidiabetic activity of P. guajava were detected by using alpha amylase and alpha glucosidase enzyme in an in vitro model.The study reveals the presence of phytochemicals such as carbohydrate
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Animal Testing Every year‚ over 100 million animals are painfully put to death because of animal testing. Experimentation on animals goes way back since the beginning of time. Typically it is conducted for advancement in scientific research‚ to test products and food before going out into the market‚ to find treatments or test medical drugs‚ and to protect people and the environment. Animal experimentation has been a controversial issue for quite some time‚ but has yet to be put to an end. Vivisection
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