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Gene Therapy 2
Number of words: 3631 - Number of pages: 14.... regular production of ADA in cells throughout the body. Without at least one properly functioning gene, children have no way of converting deoxyadenosine (a waste product) into inosine. This leads to the rapid build-up of deoxyadenosine in the system, which becomes phosphorlyzed into a toxic triphosphate, which kills T-cells. The result is an almost complete failure of the immune system and early death.
Previous treatment options included bone marrow transplants, which worked well with matched donors. A major breakthrough occurred with the development of polyethylene glycol coated A .....
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Lab Protocols
Number of words: 473 - Number of pages: 2.... fifth rule is to be extremely careful with equipment. Not only for
money purposes but also for your own personal safety.
The sixth rule is to not touch anything that the teacher or the lab
specifically instructs you to. Because you don't need to.
The seventh rule states that activities should only be done if they are
specifically discussed in your lab. This is for safety purposes and for the
liability of the school.
The eighth rule is that you are not to contaminate chemicals by using
equipment in more than one substance without washing it thoroughly. Doing this
can cause explo .....
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Dangers And Destructions Of Floods And Hurricanes
Number of words: 1359 - Number of pages: 5.... also take part on lakes. Coastal flooding can be a
great danger because coast lines are very densely populated areas. In the United
States in the early 1990's 50% of the population was on a coastal county.1
Although they shrink before reaching shore, wind generated waves have been
spotted to be as high as 30 m (100 ft) in the middle of the ocean.2 In 1970 a
major storm in the Bay of Bengal produced heavy seas that flooded regions of
East Pakistan, killing about 200,000 people.3
River flooding can happen a number of ways. The causes are rain,
snowmelt, and ice jams. Soil can not .....
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The Ocean
Number of words: 1232 - Number of pages: 5.... the wind sets the surface waters into motion
as currents. The currents generally flow horizontally-that is parallel to the
earth¡¦s surface. The wind mainly affects only the upper 100 to 200 meters of
water. However, the flow of wind-driven currents may extend to depths of 1,000
meters or more.
Thermohaline circulation produces great vertical currents' hat flow from the
surface to the ocean bottom and back. The currents largely result from
differences in water temperature and salinity. The currents move sluggishly from
the polar regions, along the sea floor, and back to the surface. In t .....
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David Levinson: Seasons' Of A Man's Life
Number of words: 4195 - Number of pages: 16.... lives.
Levinson's concept of life structure (the men's socio-cultural world,
their participation in their world and various aspects of themselves) is the
major component in Levinson's theory. The life structure for each person
evolves through the developmental stages as people's age.
Two key concepts in Levinson's model are the stable period and the
transitional period in a person's development. The stable period is the time
when a person makes crucial choices in life, builds a life structure around the
choices and seeks goals within the structure. The transitional period i .....
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Bacterial Resistance
Number of words: 619 - Number of pages: 3.... antibiotics developed that doctors and scientists focused their attention on other problems plaguing the nation. Doctors prescribed antibiotics frequently, often when they were not even needed. According to a 1998 report by the Institute of Medicine, up to fifty percent of antibiotics are prescribed unnecessarily. This blatant overuse of antibiotics had a profound effect on the efficiency of the drugs in the future. The wonder drugs that had been so effective in treating an array of diseases had started to lose the battle against increasingly resistant bacteria, often referred to as s .....
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What Is Astrology
Number of words: 418 - Number of pages: 2.... exact, it is possible to project the positions of the sun, moon, and
planets for any given time. Astrologers use this information to draw-up a
horoscope and forecast the "influences" that will affect the soul at that time.
Astrologers usually do not predict actual events in the future. They can only
say what might happen, or could happen, but not what will happen--much like a
weather forecast; although many psychics do make predictions, and astrology is
the tool they use to focus their abilities.
Another common feature of astrology is the comparison of birth charts to
ascertain the compati .....
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New Developments Or Research In Genetic Cloning: Summary
Number of words: 2623 - Number of pages: 10.... report on the cloning of the human's morphine receptor is advantageous
to us because this helps scientists to develop new analgesics.
The third section of the paper contains a brief discussion about the
advantages and the disadvantages of genetic cloning. It speculates how our
future will improve due to the technologies we are developing, and also the
biggest drawbacks which might come from it.
The last part of the paper, is the explanation of complicated terms used
in this paper. The terms which will be explained are printed in bold terms
throughout the paper. This section, the gloss .....
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Our Solar System At A Glance
Number of words: 4469 - Number of pages: 17.... other planets.
The United States has sent automated spacecraft, then human-crewed
expeditions, to explore the Moon. Our automated machines have orbited and
landed on Venus and Mars; explored the Sun's environment; observed comets,
and made close-range surveys while flying past Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune.
These travelers brought a quantum leap in our knowledge and
understanding of the solar system. Through the electronic sight and other
"senses" of our automated spacecraft, color and complexion have been given
to worlds that for centuries appeared to Earth-bound .....
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Cyclohexanone
Number of words: 905 - Number of pages: 4.... measurement of the wavelength and
intensity of the absorption of infrared light by a sample. The
wavelength of IR absorption bands are characteristic of specific types
of chemical bonds.
An IR spectrophotometer is an instrument which is designed to
obtain an infrared spectra of a molecule. An IR spectra is obtained by
first irradiating a sample with an IR source of light. The light passes
through the sample, which can be in solution or contained within a
salt plate, and then onto an IR light detector. The spectrum is
analyzed by examining at which freq .....
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