Biological Engineering:

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Bioengineering in Sports Athletes or Machines?
Biological Engineering The Future is Now John
LoVerme, T.J. Meehan, Matt Rappaport

• A former Major League Baseball player, Jose
  Conseco, estimated that about 85 of major league
  players have used some type of performance
  enhancing drug.
• Parents are intentionally training their children
  to be professional and college athletes from a
  young age with the hopes that, in the future,
  their creation will someday make millions of
  dollars and accumulate world-wide fameor at the
  very least earn a college scholarship
• Leading scientists in the field of genetic
  manipulation predict that in 5 to 15 years,
  athletes may be using genetic engineering (gene
  doping) to gain an edge on their opponents, and
  some contend that it may be already occurring.
• Strength training is not a modern invention as it
  can be dated back to ancient Egyptian and Greek
  civilizations
• Performance enhancing drugs date back to the late
  19th century as a Welsh cyclist died during a
  race due to taking a stimulant called trimethyl
  in 1886

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Medical Bioengineering Utopias See You in the
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The History of Medical Bioengineering Utopian
Thinking
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• Francis Bacon
• Novum Organum (1620) dominance of nature and
  its practical utilization for the salvation of
  mankind
• New Atlantis (1627)
• Bacon describes an ideal future society which
  thrived on scientific research
• Considerable attention is paid to medical
  research.
• New technologies in the medical field
  significantly impact success of people.

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Agricultural Bioengineering Biogenetics on Your
Kitchen Table
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• Rene Descartes
• Discours, (1637), fifth section
• Philosophy of controlling and perfecting the
  human body through medicine.
• By applying methodical principles, mankind could
  achieve dominance over nature.
• Relentless will in every generation to continue
  research in pursuit of medical progress.
• Man could be liberated from physical ailments,
  diseases of the mind, and the agonies of aging.

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• The Trend of Food Improvement
• The process of incorporating biogenetics into the
  agricultural world has gained speed in recent
  years
• The Mansanto Company
• They have been designing genetically altered
  foods that improve availability as well as the
  product
• Have been heavily criticized for much of their
  work
• Whats next?
• At this rate, natural foods are in great danger
• Should genetically altered foods be banned by the
  government?

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• The Marquis de Condorcet
• Esquisse dun tableau historique des progres de
  lesprit humain (1795)
• The development of the human race was slowly but
  surely leaving the darkness and
• emerging into the light.
• The human race knows no intrinsic limitations, it
  is indefinitely perfectable.
• Perfection of human beings could continue forever.

Bibliography Knoepffler, Nikolaus, Dagmar
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Leuven Peeters, 2006. Print. Frazier, Claude
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Based on the present developments and future
ideas of these technologies, the next logical
step in the field of biological engineering would
be to create an ideal human with genetically
altered strength, impervious to disease and fed
with the most nutritious, healthy meals.
Furthermore, we have discovered that this field
which was once regarded as nothing more than
science fiction has become an approaching
reality.
Conclusion
Bibliography
Bibliography www.Monsanto.com, Monsanto http//www
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Controversey of Genetically Modified Food, Lisa
H. Weasel
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