Task 1 – Purpose You must refine the general question/topic down into a specific question for you to research and answer. Task 2 – Sources of information Processing information: Selecting biological ideas relevant to the issue from a range of sources and organising the ideas for reporting. A range needs to involve at least three sources and the sources can be the same type e.g. all from the Internet. Your sources should be recorded and processed in your research document.…
Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig was born June 19, 1903. He played for the New York Yankees from 1923-1939 until a big moment changed his entire life. Baseball changed his life Lou Gehrig was born in the Bronx in New York. His full name was Henry Louis “Lou” or “Buster” Gehrig. When he was young, his two sisters died of whooping cough and his brother died at infancy.…
Empirical Claim: ¶ 2 – “Stem cells from umbilical-cord blood and adult tissues, posing no moral problem, have advanced quickly toward treating juvenile diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, sickle-cell anemia, cardiac damage and other conditions.” This Claim fits the empirical claims criteria because it is based on pervious researched and published work of scientist and it out come have been observed over many years. Normative Claim: ¶ 1 – “Such killing in the name of “progress” crosses a fundamental moral line.” This Claim fits the normative claims Criteria because the moral lines are defined through norms of a society. In addition, morality of something is a belief that one has about that.…
Paige Slopey Dr. Laurie Ward English II 4 November 2014 A Perspective of ALS A Perspective of ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a muscular disease that affects the upper and lower motor neurons. When the motor neurons die the ability to control muscle movements is no longer there. Before the age of 65, slightly more men than women develop ALS. This gender difference disappears after age 70.…
Waking up one day, remembering that every inch of one’s body can not move, but the mind knows what is going on; asking why is this happening. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig disease, has many people waking up to this feeling. ALS is a disease, where your brain is functioning normal, but other parts of the body are unfunctional. Now the brain is not functioning how it normally should, but the body is functioning how it should be. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a disease that is affecting the brain little by little, but does not change a person’s physical function.…
Muscular Dystrophy Muscular Dystrophy is a group of disorders characterized by a progressive loss of muscle mass and consequent loss of strength. There are multiple types of muscular dystrophy, each type affecting a different part of the body. Examples would be Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which effects toddlers starting from their third birthday and causing them to be in a wheel chair by the time they are 12 and usually dying from respiratory failure in their late twenties, early thirties. Becker muscular dystrophy is similar to Duchenne, it just starts later on in life and has a slower attack, most die in their mid forties.…
“Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive degeneration of nerve cells that control muscle movements. The disease, the most common motor neuron disease among adults, became known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after the New York Yankee’s Hall of Fame first baseman. Gehrig’s career ended in 1939 because of the condition. About 30,000 patients in this country have the disease and about 5,000 are diagnosed with ALS every year.” (ALS)…
Running Head: FROM THE OUTSIDE IN 2 ABSTRACT ALS also known as Lou Gehrig's, is a disease where your body attacks its own muscles. This research project will explain a lot of information on the terrifying disease of ALS. It will include the signs and symptoms of the disease, and the risk factors it takes to get ALS. It will also explain how and if the disease can be diagnosed by different test and when these test occur.…
Two Very Deadly Diseases Imagine waking up and wanting to stretch, but physically cannot because of the loss of movement that comes with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ALS is also commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. ALS is a very deadly disease and so is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). ALS and CTE’s are not curable; they both lead to many people’s demise, especially athletes.…
Everyone faces two major types of situations in life: those you prepare for and those that you are thrown into without any forewarning. A major part of my life was centered around a “tough break” to quote the words of Lou Gehrig. My father had been recently diagnosed with the terminal disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, a name that was coined by the fans of Lou Gehrig, a New York Yankees baseball player, after his death from the disease.…
In the medical field, there are several medical conditions and diseases that we come across. Some are popular and some we don't often hear about. The disease I would like to talk about is called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis also known as ALS. Many people know ALS to be known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. This disease is progressive and is a type of motor neuron that slowly breaks down nerve cells and die.…
People of all ages all across the nation love to sit back to a game of football, soccer, or any sport for that matter, but little do they know of all the life threatening injuries that occur to the athletes. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, is a severe disease that affects people of all ages. ALS is most common amongst male athletes, but can still possibly affect any regular person. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE, is the result of many concussions and similar to ALS, may eventually lead to death. Unlike ALS which attacks everywhere but the brain, CTE’S are diseases that attack the brain.…
To begin with, one reason why embryonic stem cell research should be viewed as a positive treatment option is because it can aid in curing diseases that have no cures. Diseases such as Parkinson’s disease are far too common nowadays. For example, up to one million people in the United States alone suffer from Parkinson’s disease, and the number is expected to increase, with sixty thousand new cases reported every year, according to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (pdf.org). With the help and the…
Why is it that some people don’t appreciate what they have until they lose it? To have the ability to use your arms, legs or even brain are unappreciated until a person loses that ability. Despite the fact that, what if there is a way to restore those parts of the body, including deadly illnesses. What would you do then?…
Stem cells are cells that have the ability to self-renew and differentiate to become a myriad of different cell types. They serve as an internal repair system, with the purpose of replenishing or damaged cells. They can be found in various microenvironments within the tissues called stem cell niches cells, some examples of these include include the brain, bone marrow, blood vessels, skin, teeth, heart, amniotic fluid, umbilical cord, etc. Typically, there are only a small number of stem cells in each tissue, and once they are removed their ability to divide and regenerate are limited. Stem cells, biologically, can constantly generate unaltered daughters, as well as have the ability to generate daughter cells will different and more restricted…