I am Princess Twilight Sparkle; I have just witnessed the end of the world. The seas boiled blood red, and the air clouded with souls. I can no longer fix this, not now anyways. With my last dying breath I preformed black magic to warn my past self of her predicament. 3 Days Earlier. The sun shun brightly through the lightly clouded sky reflecting brightly off the bright green meadow grass. Twilight, and all her very best friends where having a picnic, it was a rare occasion that Twilight was able to visit her friends in Ponyvile for the past few months she was leading an expedition to the ancient remains of Old Equestria to learn more about long ago, although the expedition being a failure she was excited to see her seemingly ancient friends. “Hey Pinkie, what did you put in this sandwich? It’s kind of an odd texture.” “I was out of vegetables and hay grass so, I put FUN in them!” Pinkie Pie says enthusiastically. “What is that suppose to mean?” Applejack asks. “It means she put the stuff that was in her party cannon into that them, see?” Rainbow Dash pulls confetti out of her sandwich in disgust “Pinkie Pie, usually you’re just plain weird but that is gross!” “There not that bad!” Pinkie Says as she says as she chows down on her confetti sandwich. Everypony else immediately stops eating and pushes there sandwiches aside. “So, Twilight how was the expedition? I don’t think I could ever do something like that, I’d never be able to sleep outside.” Rarity says “it wouldn’t good for my complexion” “Well, it was relatively uneventful. Three other ponies and I went hundreds, maybe even thousands of miles through uncharted wilderness. On about the seventh month we hit a seemingly endless mountain range, we didn’t have the equipment to ... ... middle of paper ... ...from the hair. Enclosing all six of them in a bubble of bright plamic energy. “Wait for me!” Spike says jumping into the center. The ball of plasma shrunk instantaneously. They were gone, only leaving the remains of the spell circle. --- At the top of the watchtower Luna looked up at the stars, observing them. Stars were the favorite part of her nights. The moon used to be her favorite, but after her long entrapment within the moon it reminded her too much of her past, best to just move on in the end. “Watch Out!” Luna turns her head to see six ponies tumbling off the slanted roof of the watchtower right toward her. CRASH “I apologize Luna, I guess I screwed that up. But since you’re here I need to speak to you and your sister.” Twilight grins awaiting approval from the dark princess. “Alright, it will give you a chance to apologize for stealing a strand of her hair”
" What do you mean she will be fine?! Did you not see her " I hear Akira yell.
“I would love to let me get the turkey. I will bring some cranberries and squash too,” Tom said happily and went to get the food.
Rubbing his belly Joey expressed, "I haven 't had my mother 's mashed potato recipe in weeks. Let 's have the dinner tonight!"
PGD has proven effective in patients who are of advanced age, have had recurrent miscarriages or repeated IVF failure and are either carriers of chromosomal diseases or have genetic history of such. PGD is used with an IVF to identify chromosomal mutations and genetic defects in embryos, where a cell from IVF is removed for genetic testing before implanting it into the uterus. This can either be performed as polar body biopsy,
”Well then, we better run! Quick, come into my den, it should protect us from the stars!“
"PGD - Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) - Genetic Testing." HFEA - Fertility, Infertility, IVF, Embryo Research - Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority. Web. 20 Dec. 2011. .
At the early stage, embryos created by a couple are tested as for a tissue match for their existing child suffering from an extremely rare disorder. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is also used in conjunction with Tissue typing when the rare disorder is genetically inherited to ensure that the embryo does not also carry the defective gene4. PTT offers parents the chance of conceiving a child who is an exact tissue match f...
For just thousands of dollars more, women going through in vitro fertilization can later choose to have a certain gender with perfect vision, a great heart, a natural ability for sports, and being able to avoid diseases (Angelle). Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis was first inaugurated in 1990. “It has become an important complement to the presently available approaches for prevention of genetic disorders and an established clinical option in reproductive medicine” (Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis). This has come in handy because it gives you the opportunity to create a baby free of health risks and you are able to freeze your eggs if you miscarry or if something harmful goes wrong with the first egg. Designer babies are created using In Vitro Fertilization. Using this technique, doctors can fertilize the egg with sperm inside the laboratory using a test tube. Doing so you can reduce the chance of the child being born with a genetic disorder and the parents can actually then on choose the sex of the baby. In some cases couples have used PGD to their advantage to save one of their children. Some babies sole purpose is to be created to save the life of their own sibling. Jamie was the first “designer” baby in Britain. “He was genetically matched to his four-year-old brother, Charlie, in the hope to curing a rare type of anaemia which threatens the older boy...
There is also an extensive range of social implications related to the process of PGD that come in the forms of economic, ethical, cultural and environmental. PGD provides an opportunity to eliminate a disease within a family (if the disease is inheritable and a single-gene disease). This is because through PGD, the embryos carrying the specific disease will not be used for implantation. Parents using PGD on all of their children will allow all of the children to not carry the disease and pass it on to their own children, and the danger for future generations will no longer exist from that family. This can aid in finances due to money not being spent that would have been required to compensate issues surrounding diseases or disabilities as
The way in which genetic technology is used to select embryos before implantation has advanced considerably in the past decade. There are numerous methods in which embryos can be selected. This report will focus on the method of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD). PGD is a advanced methodical approach, which can be used to test embryos for a specific known condition that the couple know about or chromosome deformity (Genetic Testing PGD, n.d). This enables only normal embryos (those unaffected by a specific disorder or disease) to be selected for transplant during an IVF cycle, increasing the chance of having a healthy baby. Up to 70% of embryos created (either via natural conception or IVF) don’t survive the first 3 months of pregnancy
I know that I am for IVF because it helps couples who are unable to naturally conceive themselves produce a baby with their DNA and genetic make up, however I am unsure what my opinion is on PGD. I understand why people choose to go through the process of PGD because it would be extremely difficult and time consuming to have to care for a child which has a genetic disorder and if the couple knew this before implantation then may have reconsidered their options. There are many implications and disadvantages to PGD and the process and how it affects the body of the mother and creates stress within households. I believe the although the cost of the treatment is quite expensive it is worth it in the long run because if a couple were to have a child that was born was a genetic defect then one parent would most likely need to give up work or cut back their hours in order to look after the child. The cost of medication and life-long care in the end can not be compared to $12,000 for PGD treatment and although the affected child may be your own and you love it, it would be a tiring job and the parents would not be able to live their lives the way they had planned. If there is a inheritable condition in the family then I personally think it is good to get it screened using PGD because although some people believe it is not ethically correct, in the end it is up to the parents to decide and I think people need to put
Imagine a future where people order babies like they order a custom car. They could go online and customize their child to their heart’s satisfaction. This future started in 1968 when Robert Edwards and Richard Gardner successfully identified the sex of a pre-embryo rabbit cell. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a test that allows geneticists to see a full living person while others only see a microscopic organism consisting of a few dozen cells. With that knowledge, geneticists can eradicate genetic diseases, allow parents to choose a specific egg out of a dozen, or replace genes with traits that the parents prefer. With this great power there is great possibility for good. But more likely, there is huge chance that this kind of ability will be misused. Funding should not be allocated for research of PGD and similar genetic procedures because it could cause overpopulation, a wealth gap, and a societal disparity.
As I lay on the minute golden grains of sand, I looked up at the brilliant sky, adorned with flashes of pink and orange and purple, mirroring the colours of a flawless seasoned apricot. The goddess-like sun’s face is being embraced by the demure navy fingertips of the skyline.
At the beginning of the story, the narrator describes, “the afternoon sunlight was like a presence in the room” (Carver 5). Their optimism on their conception on love develops into pessimism. At the end of the story, the narrator notices, “the blue layer of sky had given way now and was turning dark like the rest. But the stars had appeared. I recognized Venus and, farther off and to the side, not as bright but unmistakably there on the horizon, Mars” (Carver