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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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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Matthew Forbus Mrs. Fails Advanced U.S. VA History 8/22/14 Columbian Exchange In the late 15th and early 16th centuries explorers wanted to discover new lands due to overpopulation and curiosity of what the world was. This was called the Age of Discovery; a time when sailors set sail and went to discover more about the world. During this period‚ when sailors landed on the Americas‚ the Spanish‚ French‚ and English colonies looted the lands and also traded with the locals‚ causing the Columbian Exchange
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Heinrich Schliemann was a German archaeologist who was fascinated with the Iliad and the Odyssey. He had made important discoveries through his countless excavations of multiple sites‚ but it is unclear whether Schliemann was interested in the fame and fortune involved with treasure hunting or whether he had a passion for history and was a true archaeologist. Schliemann was interested in the tales created by Homer and this may be what led him to discover the site of Troy. He had begun excavating
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righfully be theirs‚ places soon fell in line to accept women accordingly. In 1855 the University of Iowa became the first school in the country to admit women. This was especially important to me because I live in Iowa‚ and only about an hour away from the State University. It’s nice to know that my home state is known for such a courageous act as giving women their first chance at an education. Iowa was also the first state to admit women to the bar in 1870. The education that women were receiving
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that has a lot to tell about itself. There is much history to be learned about calcium. Calcium was actually discovered by Humphry Davy in 1808. Calcium’s name happens to come from the latin ‘calx’ meaning lime. Lime (calcium oxide‚ CaO) was a useful material that was created by heating limestone. Before the discovery of calcium‚ a man named Antoine Lavoisier classified the lime as “earth” because it was very difficult‚ almost impossible to reduce it further‚ he felt that it was the oxide of an
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gives the awareness not rely on the materialistic patriarchal society. In the journey of sel- discovery‚ the narrator is collapsed with the memories of the past and her thoughts of her mother give her power and strength about the society and natural world. The narrator considers both herself and her boyfriend Joe as animals. She asks Joe to have physical contact with her. Moreover‚ she forces him for the same at the outside world. Through this action‚ she wants to mingle with this new unborn child
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The 1960s Sports Many people say that the 1960’s sports were so exciting and interesting! I will tell you how that statement is true in this essay. The first super bowl happened in the 1960’s but football wasn’t the most popular sport. The most popular sport in the 1960’s was baseball. The Green Bay Packers smash the Kansas City Chiefs in the first super bowl. The Kansas City Chiefs were going against the Green Bay Packers in the first super bowl. “The Green Bay Packers were heavily favored to
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The Manhattan Project was a turning point in discovery and weapons. But how do atomic bombs work? Why were they made? And how had it changed us as humans? Nuclear energy has changed humans. It started in 1939 when Albert Einstein‚ a German scientist‚ found out that the Nazis were trying to build a powerful bomb. He warned President Roosevelt about it and persuaded him to try to build one before they did. It would change history. Although he did warn them‚ he was denied “because the left-leaning
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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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