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Arabella H

EBSCOhost: Cloning Adult Farm Animals: A Review of the Possibilities and Problems Asso... - 0 views

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    check your tags and please ensure you are able to summarize this article in your own words!
Alisa H

Nature Versus Nurture | USC News - 0 views

  • Using a newly applied scientific technique, researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have reached surprising findings about the role of nature versus nurture in the development of the neural circuits in the auditory cortex, the area of the brain responsible for processing information about sound.
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    what media type is this? and what is the technique ? They don't talk about it!
Eva K

Brazil aims to clone endangered animals - life - 12 November 2012 - New Scientist - 1 views

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    This is not a typical science "study" because there are no findings published
Aditi V.

Nature vs nurture - which is the winner? - Arts & Humanities - Research Stories - O... - 0 views

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    tagged incorrectly. Also not sure what this is exactly
Mahima A

Squishy Science: Extract DNA from Smashed Strawberries: Scientific American - 2 views

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    what media type is this?
Colin P

Food from cloned animals - a bait and switch? - 1 views

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    A good source that goes deap into the topic of animal cloning
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    This is a really good op-ed :)
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    check tags
Yusuke K

Medical Devices Today: For Cutting-Edge Stem Cell Work, California Billions Still Unmat... - 0 views

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    This is not a description of a technique
Yusuke K

Stem cells research - Portal Brasil - 0 views

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    not sure what the technique used is
Aditi V.

Nature vs nurture - a neurological insight « Medicine « Cambridge Journals Blog - 0 views

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    check you tags. What media type is this?
Colin P

BBC News - The EU and cloning - 0 views

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    ok
Aditi V.

Media #3 - 1 views

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    not exactly sure this is an oped or a blog
Kareena M

Kareena- "Forensic DNA"- Cutting Edge Technique - 0 views

  • Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Analysis PCR analysis is a technique that allows technicians to create millions of precise DNA replications from a single sample of DNA. In fact, DNA amplification alongside PCR can let forensic scientists perform DNA analysis on samples that are as tiny as only a couple of skin cells. In contrast to some other DNA analysis techniques, PCR analysis has the advantage of analysing minuscule sample sizes, even if they are degraded although they must not be contaminated with DNA from other sources during the collection, storage and transport of the sample.
Abraham H

Forensic Techniques [Media 4] - 0 views

  • RFLP is a technique for analyzing the variable lengths of DNA fragments that result from digesting a DNA sample with a special kind of enzyme. This enzyme, a restriction endonuclease, cuts DNA at a specific sequence pattern know as a restriction endonuclease recognition site. The presence or absence of certain recognition sites in a DNA sample generates variable lengths of DNA fragments, which are separated using gel electrophoresis. They are then hybridized with DNA probes that bind to a complementary DNA sequence in the sample. RFLP was one of the first applications of DNA analysis to forensic investigation. With the development of newer, more efficient DNA-analysis techniques, RFLP is not used as much as it once was because it requires relatively large amounts of DNA. In addition, samples degraded by environmental factors, such as dirt or mold, do not work well with RFLP.
  • PCR Analysis Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used to make millions of exact copies of DNA from a biological sample. DNA amplification with PCR allows DNA analysis on biological samples as small as a few skin cells. With RFLP, DNA samples would have to be about the size of a quarter. The ability of PCR to amplify such tiny quantities of DNA enables even highly degraded samples to be analyzed. Great care, however, must be taken to prevent contamination with other biological materials during the identifying, collecting, and preserving of a sample.
  • Short tandem repeat (STR) technology is used to evaluate specific regions (loci) within nuclear DNA. Variability in STR regions can be used to distinguish one DNA profile from another. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uses a standard set of 13 specific STR regions for CODIS. CODIS is a software program that operates local, state, and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scene evidence, and missing persons. The odds that two individuals will have the same 13-loci DNA profile is about one in a billion.
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  • Mitochondrial DNA analysis (mtDNA) can be used to examine the DNA from samples that cannot be analyzed by RFLP or STR. Nuclear DNA must be extracted from samples for use in RFLP, PCR, and STR; however, mtDNA analysis uses DNA extracted from another cellular organelle called a mitochondrion. While older biological samples that lack nucleated cellular material, such as hair, bones, and teeth, cannot be analyzed with STR and RFLP, they can be analyzed with mtDNA. In the investigation of cases that have gone unsolved for many years, mtDNA is extremely valuable. All mothers have the same mitochondrial DNA as their offspring. This is because the mitochondria of each new embryo comes from the mother's egg cell. The father's sperm contributes only nuclear DNA. Comparing the mtDNA profile of unidentified remains with the profile of a potential maternal relative can be an important technique in missing-person investigations.
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