GMOs in Food: Social & Ethical Implications The genetic modification of microorganisms for the production of medicines, antibiotics and enzymes raises little debate compared to the use of genet...
Genetic Engineering: Use in Agriculture Genetic engineering is a technique used to deliberately modify a specific characteristic (or characteristics) of an organism The technique involves removing ...
Social & Ethical Considerations The use of gene technology (genetic screening and gene therapy) in medicine is becoming more common Genetic screening in medicine is being used to: Allow people ...
Gene Therapy Gene therapy involves using various mechanisms to alter a person's genetic material to treat, or cure, diseases As scientists gain a better understanding of the human genome and theref...
Genetic Screening In certain circumstances (eg. in the pregnancy in an older woman, or pregnancy where there is a family history of a genetic disease) may require individuals to determine if they h...
Recombinant Human Proteins DNA that has been altered by introducing nucleotides from another source is called recombinant DNA (rDNA) If the organism contains nucleotides from a different species it...
Bioinformatics The various technologies (eg. microarrays and gene sequencing) being used today to analyse genes and proteins generate enormous quantities of data The data being collected ranges fro...
Microarrays Microarrays are laboratory tools used to detect the expression of thousands of genes at the same time and to identify the genes present in an organism’s genome Microarrays are used in m...
Gel Electrophoresis Gel electrophoresis is a technique used widely in the analysis of DNA, RNA and proteins. During electrophoresis the molecules are separated according to their size / mass and th...
