By Amr Azim Fertility treatment is a unique opportunity to detect and prevent the transmission of genetic diseases to future children. In addition to genetic screening, embryo testing can be performed during in vitro fertilization-IVF to detect those that do not carry the disease and exclude unhealthy ones. This process is called PGD-preimplantation genetic diagnosis. [...]
Mar
23
Genetic Risk Evaluation Before Attempting to Conceive With Fertility Treatment
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Mar
23
Genetically Modified Foods
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By Suzy Staywell Genetically modified foods are those foods that have been altered at the genetic level in order to produce a form that has some new function or trait that food producers find desirable. Also referred to as GMO’s, these foods have been the subject of a great deal of controversy. There is no [...]
Mar
23
Genetic Engineering – The Technology of 21st Century
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By Navodita Maurice Genetic engineering today is no longer a new term for the world. Every day in the newspapers, televisions, magazines the new inventions of genetic engineering are noticed. Genetic engineering may be described as the practice that manipulates organism’s genes in order to produce a desired outcome. Other techniques that fall under this [...]