Jonas Salk

Many people believe that an intelligent person are more likely going to life a happy life, but this movies shows otherwise. It really shows how that even intelligent people don’t always have it easy in life. The main character, Will, is portrayed as a genius but lives in a poverish like life style. Rather than use his talents to the best of his ability he would often hang out with friends. They would typically would do delinquent (not juvenile delinquent) like activities and get themselves in…

The medical world was buzzing with optimism at the news of HeLa cells. The potential of this discovery seemed limitless. Immediately, countless experiments and research were being carried out. The most prominent was research based on the theory that cancer was caused by a virus. Curtis narrates the tale of two scientists who decided to test this theory by conducting experiments on prisoners in the Ohio State Penitentiary. These experiments involved injecting the prisoners with HeLa cells under…

who were vaccinated. When the virus spread rapidly many kept their families at home. As stated in a Salem press database, the availability of these vaccines saved millions and fears decreased ("Medicine." ) “When the vaccine became available by Jonas E. Salk and Albert B. Sabin the 1950’s saw near eradication of this catastrophic disease that had killed or disabled millions of people worldwide.” ("Medicine.") Americans were no longer afraid to leave their…

Education is meant to take us into this future that we cannot grasp: “Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue despite all the expertise, what the world will look like in five years time and yet we’re supposed to be educating them for it.” Former University professor, Ken Robinson, gave the speech “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” on TED Talk back in 2006, and he argues that “creativity is as important in education now as literacy and we should treat is with…

America, polio infected thousands of children, leaving many dead or paralyzed. 1952, in particular, had a record 57,000 cases; 21,000 of those infected were left paralyzed and another 3,000 were killed. However, through the work of researchers such as Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, effective polio vaccines were produced. A year after the vaccines were first tested, “researchers were able to say that vaccinated kids had lower rates of polio than kids who hadn 't received the shots” (Fischman). From…

Throughout history, animal experimentation has proved to be crucial to the development of our society. Since as early as the 17th century, we see how animal testings have led to important discoveries such as the understanding of the blood circulation and the function of the lungs in Medieval Europe . And now, scientists are relying on chimpanzees in hopes to help create the Hepatitis C vaccine . Overall, I believe that the state’s policy on animal experiments, as it is covered in the Criminal…

effective in the past and today. The five are; HepB, DTap, IPV, MMR, and Varicella. Each vaccine prevents viruses that America has had a struggle with in the past. The vaccine with quite possibly the most history would be IPV which was invented by Jonas Salk and prevents Polio. In the early 1950’s much of America feared the Polio virus as it caused detrimental damage to the body and handicapped many children. A prime example of just how harmful the virus is would be none other than America’s…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is written by Rebecca Skloot. This book tells us about how an African-American woman whose cancer cells were used to create an immortal cell line for experiments called HeLa. Henrietta was a poor black tobacco farmer with only middle-school education. It also tells us the story behind the woman who revolutionized modern medicine. With the use of these cells scientists could study viruses, human genetics, drugs, environment stress and vitamins. HeLa has helped…

Tiffany Batiste SSCI 306 TUES-THURS Testing 1, 2, 3: Animal Cruelty or Vital Aspect to Medical Advancement? “And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, and the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth." And God created man in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1.24) As human beings, we bear hardship through a numerous…

quality (Duster & Dahlgren, 2017). These “HeLa cells” were durable and replicated very quickly (Duster & Dahlgren, 2017). Dr. Gey isolated and replicated one of these cells to make the first cultures from the HeLa strain. The cells were used by Dr. Jonas Salk to develop the polio vaccine. The cells are also attributed to advances in in vitro fertilization, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, lactose digestion studies, mosquito mating studies, HPV vaccine, the effects of the atom bomb, the…