The Source of Creativity, Design, & Innovation

I was reading a recent article on the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the Tianhe-2, literally translating to “The Milky Way 2”. The computer is capable of 36,860 trillion calculations per second! My initial thoughts were related to a specific question, how could human beings achieve such a feat of creation? We can look around at the world around us and see so many impressive things that were created by human beings. It makes me wonder, why do we have a desire to create? Or more appropriately, why do we want to design…

Restoration Versus Enhancement in Biotechnology

In biotechnology today, one of the pressing questions is what improvements should be allowed to either restore a person’s health or enhance it? It is an issue that is bioethical in nature. Would it be considered unethical to enhance the performance of an individual? Would it be unethical to restore a person back to their original status of health? These are very important questions to address, because with the technology that is available to us today we are easily capable of performing genetic enhancements that can cause an individual to…

Epigenetic Mechanisms of Action for Cancer Prevention

Abstract Cancer is a worldwide problem and it affects millions of people. Unfortunately there is still not a cure for cancer and this is due to the fact that each cancer affects different tissues of the body, which in turn are affected by different pathways within the body. Cancer is caused by a mutation within the DNA of a cell, which causes it to continue to replicate without stopping, and the cell receives the signal to do so through an epigenetic mechanism of action. This is accomplished by an attachment…