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Now that many more individuals are becoming infected because of your
carelessness with your
infection, the government is worried, as the population is working
themselves into a frenzy.
Unfortunately, your dead body can still help. The scientists and lab
technicians can use your body
for research, hoping that they can find the reason and a cure for the
epidemic.

ANTHRAX
How can it be cured?
So
far there is no cure just anthrax, however anthrax is susceptible to
penicillin and other antibiotics,
however the antibiotics need to be taken early on in the infection or the
will not provide enough help
for curing the anthrax disease. There is a vaccine for it, and the
vaccine works by having the first
protein that the bacteria releases destroyed so that the other proteins
cannot enter the cell and to
their damage.
SMALLPOX
How can it be cured?
There is no accepted cure for
smallpox however there is a vaccine that is available. And the vaccine
contains the vaccinia virus. The origin of the vaccinia virus is unknown
however from modern
technology and DNA sequencing the scientist can determine that the
vaccinia virus is a hybrid of the
cowpox virus and the smallpox virus (variola). The vaccine is a live
vaccine, meaning that the
vaccinia virus that is found in the vaccine is alive. The vaccine causes
one single lesion to appear on
the site that the vaccine was inoculated. The pockmark dries up and the
scab falls off after ten days.
LAB ANALYSIS
Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR)
Polymerase
Chain Reaction (PCR), is a technique in molecular biology that amplifies a
specific
region of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This specific region of DNA can
be rapidly cloned, or
duplicated, to produce multiple DNA copies. This enables scientists to
make billions of copies of a
DNA molecule in a very short time. PCR allows scientists to adequately
test the DNA to detect:
DNA sequences,
diagnose
genetic diseases, carry
out DNA fingerprinting (identify individuals),
bacteria
or viruses, and research
human evolution.
PCR was the first
nucleic acid amplification method to be produced. This technique was
conceived
in 1985 by an intellectual maverick, American biochemist Kary B. Mullis
(bachelor’s degree in
Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry). Mullis and his associate Fred A.
Faloona at the Cetus
Corporation in Emeryville, California later developed PCR in 1983. When PCR
was first
developed, it was not immediately recognized. However, in 1991, PCR was
renowned for its
capabilities as it was now used widespread. In 1993, Mullis was named a co
winner of the 1993
Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work with PCR.
PCR goes through a
3-phase process, which proceeds in a series of cycles, or rounds. The DNA
fragment
is duplicated after one successive cycle. Thus, more than 1 billion copies
of a single DNA
fragment
can be made in just a few hours. The technique of PCR is very
straightforward that
scientists with little training in molecular biology can use it. The use of
PCR has a very high
probability achievement. The supplies necessary for carrying out PCR are
available in a kit form
manufactured by Roche and Cepheid. This kit is used in such varied settings
as crime laboratories
and clinical diagnostic laboratories.

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