Blog# 13: Life-The Book!!

Immediately when I saw the paper, Genetic Screenings was leaping off the page at me! I have a bunch of iddeas I guess..here they are:

• If parents-to-be find out their child-to-be has some genetic abnormailty, will they decide to have an abortion? Is abortion good or bad? Who, what, when, where, and why do people have abortions.


• for the intro describe the setting of the parents to be at the genetic screening for their baby to be and everything goes perfectly well but what about those who have babies to be with genetic mutations? what happens to them?


• Talk about how genetic screening precedures work!


• who, what, when, where, and why were genetic screenings made!
  
• statistics about how many people get them, how many who get them turn out to have no abnormalities compared to babies who do have the abnormalities.
  
  So this stage could either be pregnancy, or adulthood depending which viewpoint I take.

Another thing that interested me was the part about childhood Diabetes: Insulin repreduction. During my SLC Brandon talked about how the bio-tech industry extracts the cells that create insulin and let them mass produce insulin. I forgot exactly how it works, but it really struck me as a clever way to go about creating more insulin. This is relevant today because there are children with Diabetes, type one as well as type two, who have diabetes. Some of them are born with it because their bodies aren't sufficient in producing insulin, but others have it beacuse of uncontrolled eating. If I have to write about this, something I could look into is statistics about the fats and sugars in food and should the govt make higher taxes on them since people are just eating whatever junk is easy and in demand. The science involved would have to be how the Bio-Technology Industry extracts the cell or whichever part of the body that creates insulin to mass produce insulin.


If I had to go to last resort, I would write about steroids. I know that they are illegal and people use them for an inhanced growth rate when they need to bulk up for some type of sporting event or just to boost their own ego's. I think it might be cool to talk about the way that steroids affects the horomone levels that you would naturally have and cause mood swings and whatever else they may cause. I could talk about why steroids has been banned and how people go around the rules by saying that its not steroids because it has some other ingredients even though it actualy is steroids...this is something I'd have to do a lot more research on..and I'm not exactly very interested in learning about steroids and how they work. I really do want to learn more about genetic screenings though!