Melanoma

It is in the hands of businessmen, basic white girls, and sleep deprived moms. Coffee brewing started hundreds of years ago in ancient civilizations and has continued until today with shops like Starbucks ever increasing in popularity and sales. There is no debate about whether or not coffee gives people energy, but scientists are in a constant dispute over weather it is healthy overall. Coffee, like any food or beverage has pros and cons health wise, but overall when consumed in an appropriate…

Rats along with mice make up about 90% of the animals used in research today. Due to both rats and humans being mammals, they share a variety of similarities in structure and function. Thus making rats ideal candidates for research in laboratories along with them being easy to care for, handle and reproduce. Rats are physiologically, genetically and morphologically closer to humans than other research animals. Rats are used for research in a large variety of human conditions from diabetes and…

medicinal, and even in some cases the recreational use of marijuana, marijuana is still a Schedule 1 substance. That is why Huffman’s research was of great significance. Even so, one of the compounds that he synthesized, JWH-133, was able to fight non-melanoma skin cancer in mice (“The Surprising Origins,” 2013). This particular fact interested me the most while I was researching about synthetic marijuana. In fact, it baffled me. Any who, we need to ask ourselves how did all his research lead to…

Summary Baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is a unicellular organism, classified as a fungus, or an organism that lives and receives its nutrients by decomposing the organic material in its surroundings. This species is easy to use throughout laboratory tests because of their quick generation times, implementing the use of budding as a form of asexual reproduction. The naked eye can easily view the colonies that these yeast cells form, and carefully count them to determine the growth. The…

Not everyone served their country by fighting the Axis Powers on the front line. Many did their part in their hometown and Dorothy Haener was one of them. She contributed to the war effort by working in a plant and inspecting B-24 parts. Even growing up, Dorothy was exposed to the expectation that women were to aspire to marriage and raise a family while their husbands worked. She also noticed that many men thought women were inferior to them and were even lower in their eyes if they were…

When looking at the cost of dying the best information comes from the treatment of terminal cancer patients. One cancer drug that is currently being used today is Ipilimumab, a treatment for melanoma, its cost is $120,000 for 4 doses. (Siddiqui and Rajkumar 936) Though development of these drugs is expensive from clinical trials to receiving FDA approval, there is no regulation on the pricing of drugs imposed on the companies. Another issue seen…

Having been born in the nineties and growing up throughout the two thousands I took a lot of technology for granted, assuming that they have already been around for a while and that it was common for everyone to have these technologies, for example the internet, computers, and video games, but it wasn’t until I was older that I realized how fast technology was advancing, and how much new technology I took for granted as a kid. We see great ideas and new advancements in technology pop up…

Intro/Prologue/Base Synopsis Post apocalyptic war dystopia - but no one can quite recall what happened. Satellite reception was one of the first things to go, along with the distribution channels for media outlets. All people remember now are the explosions, the noise, the destruction, the fear, and the dust that blocked out the sun for days. Billions of people survived, but infrastructure didn’t. All the cities are gone, and only smaller towns now remain. There is no centralised government…

My mom’s side of the family has always been at constant war. The fighting between her parents stopped only when her father died, and from childhood she can distinctly remember tension and strife between her sisters and mother. Broken relationships that were never made solid continued into her adulthood and surfaced from time to time. In my short lifetime on this earth, I don’t think there was a period of time longer than a year where all three sisters and their mother all spoke to one another.…

Background Turner’s syndrome is a genetic disorder that occurs in 1 in every 2,500 female births. Though it occurs in about 3% of fetuses, 99% of these fetuses are spontaneously aborted[1]. Turner’s syndrome can be defined as a combination of phenotypes with varying expressivity along with the complete or partial loss of an X sex chromosome[2]. Symptoms of Turner’s syndrome include, but aren’t limited to short stature, glucose intolerance, broad chest and widely spread nipples, amenorrhea,…