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Paper One

February 23,2008

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The ever expanding fields of neuroscience and behavioral science often intersect in an attempt to discover the cause of many psychological disorders, a process which subsequently helps direct improvements in treatment techniques. Today, researchers have expressed an emerging interest regarding the source of one of the most commonly diagnosed developmental disorders known as autism which, since its discovery in 1943, continues to possess many mysterious qualities that have yet to be unearthed by empirical research. In particular, one presently debated argument regarding autism is aimed at confirming specific brain abnormalities which may subsequently cause or have an effect on the disorder. Though

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Tissue Engineering

Nimia Barrera

Imagine a day when people with liver failure can be cured with implanted "neo-organs" made of liver cells and plastic fibers. Imagine a day when insulin-dependent diabetics will not have to take frequent insulin injections because they have semi-synthetic replacement pancreases. A place in time when kidney dialysis machines are obsolete because anyone with damaged kidneys can be outfitted with new ones grown from their very own cells(1). Sound like science fiction? Not to scientists working in tissue engineering, a field of science that is barely a decade old.