Human anatomy

In the United States, on average 18 people per day pass away waiting for their organ transplant. In addition, on average a person is added to the organ waiting list every 10 minutes. Thus, the situation had resulted in a serious, pressing and fatal shortage of organs. Our Grand Challenge is to create a machine capable of creating complex organs to solve the current shortage of organs for surgeries. This abstract will explore the reason behind the shortage of organs, how 3D-printing will resolve…

(MyFoxBoston.com) -- Hillary Cohen is a 26-year-old woman who has never known what it feels like to wear high heels, until Monday. "I mean this is very exciting. This is the first time I've seen the leg, it is beautiful - I feel very tall," said Hillary. Because of a medical condition that caused tumors to grow on her nerve endings in her leg, Hillary was forced to only wear flat, never heels. Then, two years ago at the age of 24, she made the difficult decision to have her right leg…

I initially got into this particular type of science after watching many crime shows, some being Criminal Minds and Forensic Files. I decided I wanted to learn more into the anatomy so at Central State Hospital I took a week course during the summer before seventh grade and I learned more about how most parts of the body and how some things can affect your body and some medicines since then. Recently this summer right before eighth grade started, I went to the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia,…

Currently, In the United Staes there are over 123,000 people on the waiting list for organ transplants. Furthermore, there is a patient added to that list every 12 minutes. Every day, on average 21 people die waiting for an organ. These are frightening statistics that enhance the immense organ shortage crisis in the United States. Although the problem seems daunting the solution is simple. The United States needs to adopt an opt-out system for organ donation. Countries that have adopted…

Nina Jablonski, a biological anthropologist spoke of “how human skin evolved, particularly as an adaption to ultraviolet radiation” (The Evolution of Skin). She also answered many other questions relating to skin. Basically, the skin has a certain relation to ultraviolet radiation. Lower levels of melanin were…

In 21st century, many diseases threaten patients’ health. The scoliosis is a typical representative of office disease. “Scoliosis” says that the scoliosis could affect person’s health. When people sit or stand their spine become to be straight patients’ spine becomes to curve, so patients’ spine is not straight (Scoliosis). Many patients working places have a chair to sit, so a long time sitting and wrong sitting position could influence their spine to curve because the wrong sitting position…

organ shortage, and that has to do with kidney selling being illegal. In order to make organ selling legal, one would have to price a kidney at $50,000, and implement rigorous health screening. However, what Satel argues in “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs,” reprinted from The Wall Street Journal, is a high risk, high reward deal task in that if everything goes according to plan, everyone is has a new kidney (in theory). On the other hand, if one thing goes bad, then millions can be…

Organ Sales Legalized Rhetorical Analysis for "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" It does not make sense for people to die unnecessarily if there is a way to easily save their lives. Author of "Organ Sales Will Save Lives", Joanna Mackay seems to agree. In her essay, she argues that the government should regulate organ sales, rather than ban them. In "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" Mackay uses facts and statistics to reveal shocking numbers to the audience, revealing how lengthy the waitlist for…

When a human dies, his or her body gets decomposed until there is nothing left but bare bones. This phenomenon is possible due to millions of bacteria that exist in around us.They essentially feast on the cells, breaking the human’s building blocks down for their own use. But if the living and the dead are composed of the same fundamental materials, what prevents us, the living, from being devoured by the horde of hungry pathogens? The answer lies in the body’s immune system. The story starts…

Shortage of the organs and tissues has always been a critical medical problem. According to the data from Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, the patient waiting list for organs in US consists of more than 80,000 patients and many of them die waiting on their organ list. There are several approaches for addressing this problem like artificial organs, xenotransplantation, etc. But these have other limitations like expensive organ- transplant…