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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
Genetics in vaccines! More than it seems!
By:
Abigail Mcgrath
Kyle Aralar
Period 4
Description:
Description:
Vaccination helps the process of making a replica of a weakened disease in which the “antigen” triggers the antibody to stimulate immunization. An antibody is in constant production and plays a big role in science in a way of protecting the immune system in our body from unwanted invaders. Genetics has a role for viruses in which whenever DNA and RNA is present. Also, genetics has a role for vaccination in a way of creating genetically engineered viruses. For example, “Vaccination generally involves injecting weak live, killed, or inactivated forms of viruses or their toxins into the person being immunized. Genetically engineered viruses are being developed that can still confer immunity, but lack the infectious sequences.” (Genetically Engineered Vaccines. Boundless Microbiology) This means that the role of genetic engineered vaccines is that it creates an inactive virus to prepare the body for combating infectious disease. Additionally, an antigen is a substance that produces antibodies. According to, “World of Microbiology and Immunology”, it states, “ The technique of vaccination has been practiced since at least the early decades… retrieve material from the surface sources of smallpox, ” This means that the idea of vaccination has been around for centuries. And also, back in the early decades, vaccination has been primitive, especially for smallpox, compared to the process of vaccinations today. Also, according to, “World of Health”, it says, “ … vaccinations protect against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, rabies…” This means that vaccinations prevent diseases and provide protection. In conclusion, vaccination starts for children at least at the time of their birth. In addition for the topic, vaccination is important to human culture because most of the population widely accept vaccination as a beneficial type of engineering. First of all, vaccinations increases the chances of protection from widespread diseases. Second, vaccination can save lives and decreases the chances of certain risks and death. Based on our general research, the costs of genetically engineered vaccines are frankly expensive.
The idea of vaccine can benefit and potentially change the culture of how we imagine life. For example, vaccines help prevent diseases in which case can eradicate and prevent diseases. This means that vaccines can prevent rare and/or previously unpreventable diseases. This also means that vaccines can eradicate some deadly diseases including measles. In addition, vaccines are reversed engineered so that vaccinations will eventually be stronger and work better and reverse engineering can protect against multiple strains of the same virus. This means that reverse engineering of vaccination is a striking example of how it can change human life; a new process of which can increase mortality rates. All things considered, the benefits of vaccination can potentially change the culture of how we imagine life in a way of preventing diseases in using reverse engineering with higher mortality rates.
On the other hand, vaccination can have serious risks and fatalities. The risks of vaccination can have major drawback and can have a negatively impact the future of human life in a way of carelessness and mistreating people. For example, although vaccines can help prevent diseases it is still dangerous for certain people to be vaccinated with those who are young children and have weak immune systems. This means that vaccines can harm young children if vaccines used irresponsibly. Additionally, vaccines can be harmful if needles are used improperly, specifically reusing needles. This means that those who are recently vaccinated after his/her appointment can transmit their diseases; and that the disease is received to the other person and is passed through the bloodstream. This also means that this is extremely rare and is a malpractice on the doctor’s part. In conclusion, if vaccination are used incorrectly and practiced without using precaution, the patient can eventually have serious risks and fatalities.
Question/Answer:
Interviewee | Question |
1. Yufei Monica Bao, Friend | Q:What is herd immunity and why is it important to you? A: " Well, herd immunity is when vaccination provides protection, it is important because that is going to affect a person' health and everyone needs to take care of themselves." |
2. Kyle's Dad | Q:What is your opinion on the recent popularity of not vaccinating children, and why? A: "The parents are wrong because vaccines can prevent disease and vaccination is a right thing to do." |
3.Kyle's Mom | Q:What do you think is the main reason for parents not vaccinating their children? A: "Fear of vaccinations because it can sometimes cause autism and other issues." |
4.Kyle's Mom | Q:As a parent, would you let your children to get vaccinated? Why? Why not? A: "Yes, because it is important and vaccination protects other people from diseases; prudent and less risky." |
5.Kyle's Dad | Q:When you were a kid, were you vaccinated? If not, have you been vaccinated later in life? A: "Yes, of course!" |
Overall, people feel that vaccines are a positive and important thing, though they are concerned about any possible risks in genetic engineering.
Resources:
- Vaccination. (2003). In B. W. Lerner & K. L. Lerner (Eds.), World of Microbiology and Immunology. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/scic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=SCIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=SCIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CCV2644650448&source=Bookmark&u=las89135&jsid=2ec007c5c9487bcca16964da2fc7d2fd
- Vaccination. (2007). In World of Health. Gale. Retrieved from http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/scic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=SCIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=SCIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CCV2191501336&source=Bookmark&u=las89135&jsid=66f15bebe5cfa7001bab87eb64da5eb0
- Infants, Children, & Teens “Birth - Age 18” (2011) | Vaccines.gov. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.vaccines.gov/who_and_when/infants_to_teens/index.html
- Virus. (2008). In R. Robinson (Ed.), Genetics. New York: Macmillan Reference USA. Retrieved from http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/scic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=SCIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=SCIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CCV2642650240&source=Bookmark&u=las89135&jsid=3edc3bd361c2505182bc9775f8a8b6b3
- Genetically Engineered Vaccines (2010), Retrieved from https://www.boundless.com/microbiology/textbooks/boundless-microbiology-textbook/microbial-genetics-7/transgenic-organisms-94/genetically-engineered-vaccines-502-10778/
Reflection:
The topic of vaccines is completely moral; in fact, it is a kind of moral responsibility to vaccinate yourself and your children, so that your family does not get sick, but also so that those who can not get vaccinated do not get sick. Instead, genetically engineered vaccines can revolutionize science and can eventually lead to a better future for people. The only immoral parts of vaccinations are doctors not using proper methods, and reusing needles, and parents refusing to vaccinate their children. If prevented, the risks and fatalities of vaccinations can lead to healthy benefits and immune to diseases. Today, vaccines are constantly evolving with new ways of technology and how genetics can play a role on saving lives and protecting people. In fact, in the future, vaccines could possibly 100% eradicate the serious disease. Vaccines are also important to anyone, at any stage of life. The morality of genetically engineered vaccines is people believe that genetically engineered vaccine it is like playing God.
Cloning:
Cloning : Inside the Story
Cloning (Beyond?)
By: Juliet Maciel and Margarita Lopez
"Artificial embryo twinning is a way to make clones. As the name suggests, this technique mimics the natural process that creates identical twins. In nature, twins form very early in development when the embryo splits in two. Twinning happens in the first days after egg and sperm join, while the embryo is made of just a small number of unspecialized cells. Each half of the embryo continues dividing on its own, ultimately developing into separate, complete individuals. Since they developed from the same fertilized egg, the resulting individuals are genetically identical."(Shapiro, Harold T. "Ethical and policy issues of human cloning." Science 277.5323 (1997): 195+. Science in Context. Web. 25 Feb. 2015.) |
Benefits:
Some of the Benefits of cloning is that they are saving the specifics if they are extinct. Also they are improving the potential of medicine. To fully explore the stem cells, and to provide new ways to treat cancer.
Risks:
Some of the risk is that you can inherit diseases and some scientists intended to go a little crazy with the technology. Any of them will do whatever it takes to get the answer if its possible to cloning animals or even a person
Interview:
Interview:
Interview (i.e parent) | Question |
| What is your opinion about cloning? I think its very interesting. You kind of start to see what you are like if you can |
2. Civilian # 2 | would you clone people? In my opinion cloning is not supposed to be used on people since it removes their individuality. |
3. Civilian # 3 | is cloning moral or immoral ? It is is immoral |
4. Alex Morgan | how much are you willing to spend on cloning a loved one or yourself ? I am will to pay what ever I can to cloning my loved one. |
5.Diana | will cloning affect our society positively? It will go both way because it depends how the person take the pressure in. |
Resources:
- The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Cloning. (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2015, from http://www.methodsofhealing.com/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-cloning/
- (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2015, from http://www.theguardian.com/science/cloning
- Human Cloning. (2000, January 1). Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- Shapiro, Harold T. "Ethical and policy issues of human cloning." Science 277.5323 (1997): 195+. Science in Context. Web. 25 Feb. 2015.
Curing 'Magic' By: Noah Walker and Jonathan Zerdin
Curing ‘Magic’
By: Noah Walker and Jonathan Zerdin
Overview
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a sexually transmitted disease that damages the immune system. Leaving people at risk for opportunistic infections. There is no cure for this virus but one is being developed. AIDS replicates itself by inserting its genetic code into your DNA. It is important to genetics because it is inserted into your DNA it is likely that it will be passed to offspring. Recently, two men that had HIV were put through a process called endogenization. This process stops the coding of the viruses genes. Shortly after testing there were no traces of AIDS. Since this a relatively new type of genetic engineering for AIDS most people are unaware of its benefits and risks but those who do think this is a acceptided kind of genetic engineering.
The Interview
We asked five different people about possible AIDS treatments.
Person 1: Sheri Walker
Q/ What are some benefits of curing AIDS?
A/ Saves lives, saves money, and assists the scientific community for future illnesses and helps prevent outbreaks.
Person 2: Trent Walker
Q/ What are some risks of curing AIDS?
A/ I’m no scientist but I don't think there would be any risk to curing AIDS.
Person 3: Mrs. Rosen
Q/ Do you think a cure for AIDS would be good or bad? Why?
A/ I think a cure for aids would be good the only problem i’d have is how they’d find that cure because genetic engineering is iffy
Person 4: Mr. Coudrie
Q/ What are your thoughts on an AIDS vaccine?
A/ An AIDS vaccine would be an encouraging advancement in science.
Person 5: Mr. Gu
Q/ How do you think a cure for AIDS would affect society?
A/ “I think a cure for AIDS would save lives and prevent diseases in the future”
Benefits
- One of the biggest benefits to treating aids would be that people would no longer have to worry about getting it.
- Altering genetic information to cure diseases would be acceptable and would make our lives better.
Risks
- Curing aids through genetic modification could have affect that we can't see until it’s been further researched.
Reflection
We think that curing AIDS would be moral because it is a deadly virus. Although this doesn't make any impact on us it affects a lot of other unfortunate people. I think that redesigning life to cure diseases is acceptable by most people.
References
Adolescence and the Flu Vaccine
Adolescence and the Flu Vaccine
By: Meghan , Karleigh , and Elizabeth
Most people think that getting the flu vaccine is wrong while their child is going through adolescence. (4)“Adolescence is the time where a child is going through puberty in the ages between 13 and 19 years old” . Most parents think that there isn’t a specific time, but they just don’t think that it should be done during adolescence because of the changes in adolescence like (4)“the physical and psychological changes that occur in adolescence can start” . Flu vaccinations during adolescence is not supported by a lot of people. The flu vaccine can be very helpful to kids and their parents. If they were to wait too long, then the child could have a better chance of getting the various types of the flu. (3)“The vaccine enters ones body, stays in there, and creates antibodies to help decrease the chance of the one getting the flu”. (3)“This may be linked to science because it works with ones genetics to help decrease the likelihood of them getting the flu”.
Benefits
The flu vaccine has it benefits and risk to getting vaccinated. It is used so that you will not end up catching the flu. It is also used to keep the flu symptoms milder in case you catch the flu.Some other benefits of getting the flu vaccine are (2) “ the flu vaccine can reduce the risk of more serious risk of the flu like death or going to the hospital”. (2)“ The vaccine helps protect pregnant women from catching the flu and it showed that 92% of mother and infant from being hospitalized”.
Risks
Some risk of not getting vaccinated with health risk like HIV or kidney disease are more likely to get the flu but also get pneumonia(1)’’ Kids that take aspirin while having the flu can end up with Reye syndrome’’. (1) “Within 1-2 days of getting vaccinated you may have soreness in the area where you got the shot. Some more side effects are feel achy or have a mild fever after getting the shot. From 2-3 weeks after getting vaccinated some people may end up getting sick”.
Interviews
Interviewee | Question |
1. Sabataso | Q:Do you know what adolescence mean? A:yes Q: Do you think that it is right to get your teen vaccinated well going through adolescence? A: Yes, because there is a chance that her children could get the vaccine. Q:Do you think that there’s a certain time that your kid should be vaccinated? Yes. babies and young adults. Q:Do you as a person believe that the flu vaccine work ? A: Yes, she thinks it does because she has gotten it for the past six years and she hasn’t gotten the flu, yet. Q:Would you vaccinate your child during adolescence? Yes, because she just wants to take the safer route than the sorry. |
2. Wood | Q. Do you know what adolescence mean?
Q. Do you think that it is right to get your teen vaccinated well going through adolescence?
Q. Do you think that there’s a certain time that your kid should be vaccinated?
Q. Do you as a person believe that the flu vaccine work ?
Q.Would you vaccinate your child during adolescence?
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3. Broome | Q. Do you know what adolescence mean?
Q. Do you think that it is right to get your teen vaccinated well going through adolescence?
Q. Do you think that there’s a certain time that your kid should be vaccinated?
Q. DO you as a person believe that the flu vaccine work ?
Q. Would you vaccinate your child during adolescence?
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4. Marlowe |
Q. Would you vaccinate your child during adolescence?
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Resources
Teen Health. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2015, from http://teenshealth.org/teen/infections/colds_and_flu/flu_shot.html
What are the Benefits of Flu Vaccination. (n.d.). Retrieved February 18, 2015, from www.cdc.gov/flu/
Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccine. (2014, October 22). Retrieved February 24, 2015, from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm
Psychology Today. (n.d.). Retrieved February 24, 2015, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/adolescence
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