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Could you imagine a world where not only your birth being planned but your also your phenotypic makeup like hair and eye color.  Don’t worry because this is a far shot down the road, but the technology to selectively choosing embryos with  a greater chance of developing into a healthy human being is practically already here. The  two methods to “design” some aspects of a human [...] Read More »

I and several other students from Prairie View A&M University attended the Pre-JAMP Symposium on April 3, 2009. When we first arrived we practiced putting stitches in different sized cuts on an arm filled with Styrofoam.  The outer layer, the skin, seemed to respond realistically to the pressure of a needle. We also practiced inserting a tube and inflating the lungs Read More »