Genetics

This week in AP Biology we talked about genetics. In the beginning of the week, we went to a genetics conference at Lubbock. The conference was really interesting! The beginning of the conference wasn't all that interesting, but once we got into cloning, that's when it became extremely interesting. In the conference, scientist have learned that you can take human skin and turn them into stem cells to make a tiny human brain. Another thing that was really interesting at the conference was that scientist are trying to make a thing similar to a fountain of youth. Researchers and scientist are trying to make people who are in their 60's, 70's and so forth, to make them look like how they looked when they were in their 20's or 30's. Scientist are getting closer and closer to be able to clone humans. Since they have cloned goats, horses, and several other animals, they are getting really close to cloning a human. Even though most people and scientists say that it cannot be done because it is to complex, but researchers are figuring out a to make it possible. In my opinion I do not think it is a good idea to clone a human because people can take advantage of this and do crazy bad things. Another thing researches and scientist are trying to do is being able to cure diseases such as Parkinson's, Lou Gherig's Disease. And another thing they are trying to cure is diabetes. All of this is really crazy to think about. Diseases and other issues are starting to become a reality. Like the speaker at the genetics conference Sam Rhine said, science fiction, is more amazing than science fiction.