Radium

The time period of WWI and WWII is often identified as a time of battles, bloodshed, and drastic political changes. This time period was also responsible for catapulting many medical technological advancements and developing several specialty fields of medicine. As medical research and knowledge grew, related industries, such as life insurance companies, sought to establish identifiers of an ideal, healthy client. As a result, body averages and standards were set, creating an image of normalcy.…

I found that this novel was quite unique in that it laid out a detailed examination of the history of cancer and how treatments were created, along with a detailed description of the author’s personal experience during the early days of oncology. The author of Emperor of all Maladies: A Biology of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, was able to lay out all of the aspects of cancer and the battle of trying to treat, prevent, and cure it. Since the 1800s, doctors have been pushing and hoping for a…

Uranium Paetyn Blockhus Why do you think people thought when they first discovered uranium? The warfare has changed when uranium was introduced. The discovery of radioactivity and other things in uranium has been discovered over the years. The size and weight of uranium is one of its many characteristics. The world had changed when they started using and mining uranium. The fun facts of uranium are truly surprising. Uranium is an…

Explain how HeLa cells were used in each situation 1953 1954 HeLa chromosomes visible by hemotoxylin stain. HeLa cells become first cloned cells. February 6, 1951 Henrietta went back to Johns Hopkins so they could treat her for her cancer with radium. Radium is like chemotherapy; it destroys all cells it encounters, killing…

new and important source of energy in the immediate future” shows how Einstein is thrilled and amazed by importance of uranium. He goes on to talk about how uranium is important by stating “ by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium like elements would…

HeLa is a cell type in an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line. There was a story behind the HeLa cell besides that fact that it was an immortal cell. This immortal cell once came from a mortal cell; an African American woman by the name of Henrietta Lacks. She visited John Hopkins Hospital after an abnormality in her cervix, later found out she had cervical cancer. After the death of Henrietta, scientists did extensive research…

Horizontal drilling, also known as, fracking is a method of drilling into Shale to extract gas. Shale gas is abundant in the United States, which could mean energy independence. The amount of natural gas in the United States is equivalent to two amounts of oil in Saudi Arabia's. However, this process raises concerns, health concerns in particular. The luxury of drinking water out of the tap has been taken away from communities where fracking has hit. The economic benefits of fracking do not…

about an experiment they had recently performed back in Nazi Germany. The experiment consisted of bombarding uranium with neutrons and the result showed that the element was not what they expected. The results showed the element of barium instead of radium. Lise Meitner called this experiment an example of nuclear fission. Many people during this time thought this was amazing feat and beyond belief. When the uranium was bombarded with neutrons the neutrons collided with the atoms in the…

So first off radon is a radioactive gas that has no color, odor or taste. It comes from uranium deposits, phosphate mines, and coal combustion. Radon as a short half-life of four days which means it starts breaking down into radon decay. Radon is in all soils, it has higher concentrations in granite, shale, and phosphates. Which sadly means the soil can be contaminated, which could lead to being absorbed into the plants, and then enter the food chain, nothing is known about the effects of this.…

‘misconduct’ in her confidential life. But she valiantly went to Stockholm, even though antagonism, and said that she trusted that there was no connection amid her confidential existence and her logical work. She perished of cancer provoked by exposure to radium, one of the agents that she discovered. Many outstanding people from the past have had their reputations obliterated by exposure of their human frailties. But a little, like Marie Curie, accomplish such greatness that they will be…