In our modern era, drugs and technology play increasingly progressive roles. Their presence can bring about positive changes, like medical breakthroughs or long-distance communication, but they also may elicit severe repercussions. If people, from politicians to scientists, begin to abuse substances, humanity may suffer. It can be extremely difficult to understand these dynamics, but Aldous Huxley is one such author who examines the significance and potential of these instruments. In Brave New…
Wendy Chung, a human geneticist utilizes the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos to better explain what autism is. Chung is a certified clinical geneticist who has a PhD in molecular genetics. She graduated with an MD from Cornell University and a PhD from The Rockefeller University. On March of the year 2014 Chung spoke in a Ted Talk conference over autism, Autism- what we know (and what we don’t know yet). Chung and her team of expertise lecture the audience concerning this order.…
The immune system can be very perplexing, one minute you're enjoying a fun day outdoor and the next minute, you're wheezing and having trouble breathing. Discovering the causes of allergic reactions can help people become more aware of and cure their diseases. This is similar to what allergists and immunologist do in their everyday routine. Allergists and immunologists are physicians that specialize in the treatment of allergic, asthmatic, and immunologic diseases. They partake in the activities…
The Role of the Blood-Brain Barrier with Medication The blood vessels within the brain are lined with special endothelial cells that are tightly knit together and form the blood-brain barrier. The impermeable junctions prevent molecules passing through the blood from escaping outside of the vessel walls and into the brain. Molecules must be extremely small in size and have the ability to dissolve in fat in order to leak through the vessel walls. The majority of chemical substances do not…
Lawrence Livermore researchers recently published a study about how shock waves will cause damage the membrane proteins for a patient suffering from brain injury. These shock wave TBIs have become common with improvised explosive devices that we have seen used in Iraq and Afghanistan. Experts estimate that around 230,000 military veterans have suffered from TBI between 2001 to 2014. The problem is that we do not deeply understand how this takes place. Researchers are not sure how exposure to…
Introduction: The paper discusses in detail potentially new drugs discovery for prostate cancer disease by exploiting literature-derived knowledge and semantics. Using knowledge discovery methodologies is, recently, getting popular for all types of drastically growing data sources such as medical data. Although the authors argue that their methodology is groundbreaking and it sounds reasonably effective, the methodology could have been more practical and automated by reducing a manual…
discuss the medical and business sides of creating a new treatment called Spinraza. Spinraza is a drug that is used to treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy(SMA) which is a rare genetic linked condition that causes a loss of nerve cells inside of the spinal cord. This loss of nerve cells causes a loss of motor function and can often be lethal, especially when the age of onset is earlier. Spinraza has been approved for sale very recently and was approved by the Federal Drug Administration(FDA) very…
which can be compared to the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. Like Victor Frankenstein “dabbles among the unhallowed damps of the grave” and compiles decomposing human body parts, cloning tries to create life using human tissue or cells (Shelley 39). Human cloning should not be performed because the process has a low success rate, and it is unethical as it violates the respect that every human should be given. Human cloning is a wasteful and ineffective process with a low…
somatic (adult) stem cells research be conducted in New Zealand. Biological ideas - Describing and explaining the biological ideas related to the question or purpose by making multiple links between relevant biological ideas. Scientists and doctors are constantly researching news ways to make modern medicine more personalized for every individual. One way they are is doing this is by using Stem Cells. Stem…
creation of a single cell which has divided and became an organism. It is believed at the beginning there was only prokaryotic cells, bacteria cells which are not as advanced as mammalian cells, eukaryotic cells. When a bigger prokaryotic cell engulfed a smaller one, instead of being destroyed, smaller ones helped bigger prokaryote cell to be more advanced cell; for example, bigger one started having mitochondria which is the “power house” of the cell and this is how eukaryotic cells has been…