This month we are studying human biology and will be working our way through the different human body systems and comparing the systems to various animal taxa. To that end our blog this month will focus on human disease on these human body systems.
I would like you all to find a disease that affects a particular system and how it is treated or share a new discovery in medicine associated with that disease. Below is a link that might help you find a recent news article to site.
http://www.newsmax.com/Health/
If you use the search window at this site you can find lots of articles to consider. I will start us off by modeling:
Shingles is a disease that affects the skin and nervous systems. It is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox, and remains latent in our bodies. Later in life, especially, during times of stress or when our immune system is weakened the virus erupts as shingles. New vaccines for shingles have shown some protection from this very common disease.
http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Dr-Hibberd/shingles-vaccine-chickenpox/2015/02/03/id/622483/
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
March 2015 - Accelerated Biology
March 2015 - Accelerated Biology
This month we are going to blog about "-ology". The life sciences have a host of sub areas of study that you may or may not have heard of before. For this month's blog I would like to find and share an "-ology" that you might be interested in or one in which you don't know anything about. Please post the name of the area of study and then give a brief overview of what it is and the jobs that are associated with this field. (Let's try not to have any repeats!) I will start us off:
Mycology is the study of fungi, its taxonomy, genetics and chemical properties. Experts in this field work in the medical, and food industries. When I was an undergraduate student at Iowa State University, two of my favorite professors (Dr. George Knaphus and Dr. Louise Tiffany) were world renown mycologists and very good people.
This month we are going to blog about "-ology". The life sciences have a host of sub areas of study that you may or may not have heard of before. For this month's blog I would like to find and share an "-ology" that you might be interested in or one in which you don't know anything about. Please post the name of the area of study and then give a brief overview of what it is and the jobs that are associated with this field. (Let's try not to have any repeats!) I will start us off:
Mycology is the study of fungi, its taxonomy, genetics and chemical properties. Experts in this field work in the medical, and food industries. When I was an undergraduate student at Iowa State University, two of my favorite professors (Dr. George Knaphus and Dr. Louise Tiffany) were world renown mycologists and very good people.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
February 2015 - Accelerated Biology
OK we have made it through midterm exams and our second blizzard in a week, so we can now get back the business of studying biology!
Below please find a link to an article about "Three Parent Babies". Please read the article and watch the embedded videos and then post what you think about the procedure or comment on one of your peers posts.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11386151/Three-parent-babies-the-arguments-for-and-against.html
Below please find a link to an article about "Three Parent Babies". Please read the article and watch the embedded videos and then post what you think about the procedure or comment on one of your peers posts.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11386151/Three-parent-babies-the-arguments-for-and-against.html
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