Hollywood films appeal to a wide variety of audiences because they make a direct appeal to our emotions. We like to see movies because they make us feel something. Most of the time, the feeling that we’re looking for is a feeling of excitement like being thrilled. A lot of...

IntroductionGenetic modification refers to the direct as well as deliberate manipulation of the genes of an organism. It is important to consider the aspect of direct manipulation in the definition because in the past, farmers were accustomed to indirectly modifying the genetic makeup of animals, for instance through interbreeding and...

In Guito’s article “Why is this $99 Home DNA Kit causing such an uproar?”, the author attempts to explain the reasoning behind the FDA stepping in to regulate 23andMe’s Home DNA Kits as medical device (2014). FDA had stepped in before with similar DNA mapping products due to the possibility...

Summary:This article by Pray (2008), published in Nature, highlights and explains the history of the discovery of DNA. It points out that, whilst we generally ascribe the discovery of DNA to James Watson and Francis Crick, the work they did was based on ideas going back to the 1860s. The...

Science has shown us that: "we share a common ancestry and the differences among people are not as great as they seem" (Race, n.d.). The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of biological difference, and whether the concept of race has any scientific validity.Our human history which...