Introduction The structural and functional complexity of proteins as heteropolymeric polypeptide chains is based on diverse interactions between a variety of their hydrophobic, polar and ionizable side chains. These interactions occur in unliganded proteins as well as on association with ligands. This complexity makes it difficult to predict accurately the structure and function of a protein fr...

A designer baby is a baby genetically engineered in vitro [5] for specially selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection. Before the advent of genetic engineering and in vitro [5] fertilization [6] (IVF), designer babies were primarily a science fiction concept. However, the rapid advancement of technology before and after the turn of the twenty-first century ma...

A designer baby is a baby genetically engineered in vitro [5] for specially selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection. Before the advent of genetic engineering and in vitro [5] fertilization [6] (IVF), designer babies were primarily a science fiction concept. However, the rapid advancement of technology before and after the turn of the twenty-first century ma...

The surge of modern techniques to fabricate structured materials paired with our ever deeper understanding of complex forms ofmatter present uswith the opportunity tomake and study dramatically new forms of designed materials and structures. This movement is being fueled by recent and rapid developments in a variety of fields, including soft matter, materials science, computer assisted design a...

This paper discusses our preliminary analysis of how designer and non-designer participants discussed and engaged in design activity. For this research, we employed two design study experiments that included a total of forty-eight participants. In our preliminary findings we found differences between designers and nondesigners in how a design activity is analyzed. The more significant prelimina...

Designer 2000 project is presented. Designer 2000 system will support a systematic probabilistic design of LQG adaptive multidimensional controllers based on ARX model. The project goal is to improve the accessibility of already available tools. This is achieved mainly by incorporating available knowledge into the system and by a careful object-oriented computer-aided design of the system and e...

In 2004 the term “designer baby” made the transition from sci-fi movies and weblogs into the Oxford English Dictionary, where it is defined as “a baby whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics.” This coinage was prompted by recent advances in genetics th...

A designer baby is a baby genetically engineered in vitro [5] for specially selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection. Before the advent of genetic engineering and in vitro [5] fertilization [6] (IVF), designer babies were primarily a science fiction concept. However, the rapid advancement of technology before and after the turn of the twenty-first century ma...