Cluster of differentiation

The character Frankenstein happens to be very well-known in today’s media. Mary Shelley’s novel and story itself seems to be overlooked when it comes to who the monster is. When most think of Frankenstein, it’s a green giant who resembles the look of a zombie. Most probably wouldn’t know that they’re wrong in several ways. Comparing the book to modern world, Frankenstein has given us the look of a green monster, new research on animated life, and life lessons. During the 1800’s, science and…

Frankenstein's influence on modern science The first spark of the transplantation of body parts and the future applications of scientists and surgeons came from the idea presented in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. “The monster,” as it is called in the novel, was the fictional human creature assembled by the gathering of body parts from corpses. In Mary Shelley’s novel, the character Victor Frankenstein was a renowned scientist and surgeon who applied his…

Stem Cell Research Stem cells come from embryos, fetuses, or adults that retain the capacity to develop into specialized cells and regenerate themselves; Scientists could manipulate and study stem cells in hope of using them to cure diseases. There are great possibilities in the stem cell research because they have the potential in the development of therapies and replacing defective or damaged cells. Resulting from a variety of disorders and injuries. Such as Parkinson disease, Heart disease…

cells. Cell differentiation is the process of a cell changing from one cell type to another in developmental biology. In this process stem cells are used. A stem cell is a cell that has the ability to continuously divide and differentiate into various other kinds of cells or tissues. The process of differentiation results from the protein make-up of a cell. The blueprints for making these proteins are found in the nucleus of each cell as DNA; thus, the starting point of differentiation is in the…

The cell is the building block of life. The earliest form of these organisms are called stem cells, which can give rise to potentially any kind of cell. The possibilities of these revolutionary cells are vast, and are currently being applied in many scientific fields, one being the medical field. Stem cell scientists study a four to five day old organism, a ball of one hundred and twenty cells, which has the potential to give rise to a human being. Many think that the protection of human life…

Angelic Peraga J98857564 Epigenetics Trillions of cells are in a person's body that has a DNA with an identical sequence of nucleotide bases. They have this epigenome inside and it is a set of chemical switches looking like a beacon that has the ability to control the gene expression within a cell. It's like a second layer of information that tells genes how to act. By turning some genes on and leaving some genes off, turning some cell into brain cells, bone, or skin and sometimes it may also…

I am always looking for unexpected; and biomedical engineering does with the application of engineering principles to medicine to resolve patient-life inconveniences. The first thought of doing biomedical engineering was inspired by a phenomenon of a blind man crossing road with a walking stick, finding his ways in a crowd. His aspiration to see again intrigues me to think would sightless people restore vision one day or live in dark forever. Yet, with the intelligent invention of bionic eyes in…

Want to have another you wandering around? Neither does the rest of the world. But apparently, a lot of scientist would like to make that possible. They would like to clone anything that they deem necessary. Proponents of the idea say that cloning could lead to more disease resistant plants, but, this very creation could cause lack of DNA diversity. So, cloning should not be allowed because because people are still very conflicted on the subject, also the cost of cloning is too extreme and, it…

The reproductive cloning of human embryos is largely considered unethical because a human clone would have a greatly decreased quality of life; clones often suffer from genetic and physical abnormalities, and have greatly shortened lifespans. Others fear that the reproductive cloning of human embryos has the potential to be abused. In theory, one could create human clones for purpose of organ harvesting. For these reasons, many countries have halted research on the reproductive cloning of humans…

The Ginty Lab at Harvard Medical school focuses its research on understanding the function, organization, and mechanisms of assembly of the peripheral nervous system and spinal cord circuits that underlie somatosensation. My project specifically is examining contributions of the peripheral nervous system to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) using a mouse model of ASD. A recent study in our lab found a peripheral somatosensory neuron locus of dysfunction in two mouse models of ASD that lead to…