The weather in Atlanta threatened rain outside the Disease Control Headquarters, the home of the most powerful microscope in the world. Inside the famous lab, the two doctors deeply immersed themselves in their research and worked independently. The soft purring sound from the fan of the machine held their attention on a subliminal level. Caveat shook his neck of kinks created by the strain caused from bending over his work for the last several hours. He got up and stretched, then circled the lab for exercise and headed into the quieter adjoining room to place a phone call to the Caltech astronomers. He made arrangements for them to be flown in as soon as possible that same day to have a look at their colossal breakthrough. The experts arrived in Atlanta mid morning. Intern Alex, while performing his ordered assignments, casually entered through the laboratory door. Stapleton and Caveat, engrossed in their work, swung around in their chairs as if taken by surprise. Alex, startled in response looked at Stapleton. “Oh, so sorry doctor, I thought you were alone.” “That’s ok Alex,” she said. “Come in please. Alex I’d like you to meet the famous, Dr. Bernard Caveat—inventor of the incredible, Micro-neuro Syringe.” Caveat glared affectionately at her. “He’s requested our help with the “Bacterium X” project. Dr. Caveat, this is my intern, Alex Patten.” The men shook hands and exchanged greetings. The enthusiastic intern, now being sandwiched between two of the most prestigious scientists in the world, mustered up enough courage to shoot a question by the neurotechnology giant, before they all got down to business. “Dr. Caveat, I understand the bacterium is mutating to a potentially pandemic... ... middle of paper ... ...ckly. What we have here,” he then pointed to the largest monitor in the lab, “we now know is fatal to all life including humans. What you see here is—” Dr. Marks overcome with amazement, broke in. “The Cronin Galaxy!” Dr. Gremley moved up next to his colleague and shared in the excitement. “That’s right!” “The Cronin Galaxy?” Stapleton uttered, “Are you sure doctors?” “You can’t miss it.” Dr. Marks confirmed. “It’s shaped like an angel. See its wings? She outlined the image with her finger directly on one of the smaller monitors in the room to demonstrate the clearly defined shape. Then she took a step backward and squinted with her eyes still fixed on the giant three-dimensional screen. “Where did you ever find such a graphic? It’s incredible!” “It’s not a graphic!” Stapleton said. “It’s Bacterium X magnified to 10 (-120) believe it or not!
It became apparent in 1918 during a flu epidemic that certain traits were lacking in the scientific community necessary to research for a cure. In a passage from The Great Influenza, John M. Barry implements exemplification, diction, and didactic figurative language in order to depict the works of a scientist and the common obstacles encountered. Barry also characterizes scientists as those who possess the traits needed to accomplish their goals.
In The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, the author writes about scientists, and their constant struggle with research. Barry emphasizes the difficult challenges, and mysteries people in the science occupation experience. The author also explains the qualities one must possess to be a scientist, and the all-or-nothing research they must partake in. Throughout this passage of The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, the author characterizes scientists, and their everyday research as spontaneous and unpredictable through the use of several rhetoric strategies.
Along with prompting mass hysteria amongst people, the flu epidemic of 1918 also revealed the arduous aspects of scientific research. In order to efficaciously perform their jobs, scientists are required to possess specific attributes. In a passage from The Great Influenza, John M. Barry uses vivid imagery, figurative language and exemplification to depict the challenges and uncertainty a scientist must overcome, along with the traits they must bear in order to succeed in forming a “path” for future growth.
Jane goes to work everyday at an animal-testing lab. She pours liquids used in eyeliner into the eyes of numerous albino rabbits. The rabbits' eyes are held open with clips so that for the 72 hour test period, the rabbits can't even blink. The rabbits' bodies are in a box so that only their head protrudes. Jane watches the rabbits and records how the rabbits’ eyes react. She observes as the rabbits’ eyes bleed intensely. Some eyes become extremely deteriorated, and some rabbits even become blind due to the toxicity of the liquid being tested. As she walks down the line writing down what each rabbit's reaction is, Jane notices many rabbits have broken their own necks trying to escape the horrendous pain ("Product...").
“Each year, more than 100 million animals are killed in U.S. laboratories for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity-driven experimentation,
The story’s tone is one of romantic controversy, a dilemma at a high level of existence. The scientist’s love for his craft competes very intensively with his newfound love for his wife. It is also very psychological, strictly dealing with the raw mind of its subjects as if the ominous narrator told the story from inside their mind, rather than observe it from the outside. He describes the processes that one may take to reach a certain degree of knowledge and to find the elixir of life, which is described in this story as the ultimate goal of the scientific community. Also, the narrator is very opinionated about events in the story.
The rapid pace of vaccine development convinces people that they are safe from the infectious diseases. Unfortunately, the anthrax outbreak in 2001, having killed five people, reveals the vulnerability of the public health, suggesting that further research on contagious epidemics should be developed abruptly. In response to this issue, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) granted Boston University a $128 million funding for the construction of a new leading facility known as the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL or BU Biolab), which would be sited on the Boston University Medical Campus, to battle against contagious ailments. Besides conducting research on infectious diseases, the BU Biolab will also perform research to prepare for bioterrorism (Le Duc). According to the Center for Disease Control, there are four levels of increasing of containment for research on infections ranging from Biosafety Levels 1 through 4 (BSL-1 to BSL-4). While much of the research on epidemics is done in laboratories with BSL-2 to BSL-3, the BU Biolab, with the highest level of precaution, BSL-4, will conduct research on rare contagious epidemics including anthrax, ebola, and plague, which are usually life threatening.
There were three completely stocked human anatomy labs holding a total of six classes every week during the 1992 winter quarter. Spread thoughout each lab room were six different stations displaying six different viewpoints of that day’s featured body system. Also located in these lab rooms, but off limits to us, was “the room behind the closed door.” Every so often, when the door was carelessly left ajar, we did manage to grab a peek of the secret room beyond. Filling every cubic inch (50 ft deep, 20 ft wide & 20 ft high) of the room lying beyond the door were steel gurneys stacked upon one another; upon each layer were sealed plastic bags containing cotton cocoons of corpses wa...
Hats off to bacteria! This article summarizes that bacteria are good for our body and help us function a lot better. Bacteria live in our guts, in our mouths, and on our skin. Overuse of antibiotics has disturbed the bacterial ecosystem, possibly so much that it is irreversible. In 1999 Lawrence Brandt a professor of medicine and surgery at the Albert Einstein College of medicine had success when trying to help a patient combat diarrhea induced by clostridium difficile. A patient developed diarrhea after taking a course of antibiotics for sinusitis; nothing could shake her C.difficile infection. Brandt reasoned the initial antibiotic treatment had killed gut bacteria that promote digestive health; not knowing which strain to replace, he transplanted stool form her husband. That night she reported marked improvement- for the first time in six months. This procedure has helped patients, but hopefully in the future doctors will be able to administer the particular strain of bacteria that is needed. 99% of the bacteria we harbor are resistant to culture in the lab. It was this impossible to study bacteria until the last decade or so, when DNA sequencing techniques allowed researchers to obtain gene sequences from as little as one bacterial cell. With this researchers found that bacteria cells in our bodies outnumber our human cells. Bacterial exposure throughout our lifetime is needed for our wellbeing, thinking, and functioning, contributing to conditions such as diabetes, obesity, allergies, asthma, and atherosclerosis, as well as to anxiety and mood and cognition disorders. These conditions have become more prominent because of our obsession with sanitation has eliminated the exposure to bacteria humans used to routinely get throu...
The main purpose of conducting the interviews with Dr. Rod P. Githens and Ed.D candidate, Joshua C. Collins, is to understand the reasons they chose this career path; meanwhile, it was a good chance to know more about their experiences and stories. I also realized that there are many important components for a scholar to attain a successful career including good preparation, clear communication, and thoughtful organization. There are many takeaways from these two interviews. The following statements will illustrate the most valuable inspiration I obtained from them.
In the last decade, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics has increases. Even though, antibiotics are helpful, an excess amount of antibiotics can be dangerous. Quite often antibiotics are wrongly prescribed to cure viruses when they are meant to target bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that is prone to kill microorganisms, or bacteria. By examining the PBS documentary Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria and the article “U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for New Antibiotics” by Ben Hirschler as well as a few other articles can help depict the problem that is of doctors prescribing antibiotics wrongly or excessively, which can led to becoming harmful to the body.
Bacterial cells, like plant cells, are surrounded by a cell wall. However, bacterial cell walls are made up of polysaccharide chains linked to amino acids, while plant cell walls are made up of cellulose, which contains no amino acids. Many bacteria secrete a slimy capsule around the outside of the cell wall. The capsule provides additional protection for the cell. Many of the bacteria that cause diseases in animals are surrounded by a capsule. The capsule prevents the white blood cells and antibodies from destroying the invading bacterium. Inside the capsule and the cell wall is the cell membrane. In aerobic bacteria, the reactions of cellular respiration take place on fingerlike infoldings of the cell membrane. Ribosomes are scattered throughout the cytoplasm, and the DNA is generally found in the center of the cell. Many bacilli and spirilla have flagella, which are used for locomotion in water. A few types of bacteria that lack flagella move by gliding on a surface. However, the mechanism of this gliding motion is unknown. Most bacteria are aerobic, they require free oxygen to carry on cellular respiration. Some bacteria, called facultatibe anaerobes can live in either the presence or absence of free oxygen. They obtain energy either by aerobic respiration when oxygen is present or by fermentation when oxygen is absent. Still other bacteria cannot live in the presence of oxygen. These are called obligate anaerobes. Such bacteria obtain energy only fermentation. Through fermentation, different groups of bacteria produce a wide variety of organic compounds. Besides ethyl alcohol and lactic acid, bacterial fermentation can produce acetic acid, acetone, butyl alcohol, glycol, butyric acid, propionic acid, and methane, the main component of natural gas. Most bacteria are heterotrophic bacteria are either saprophytes or parasites. Saprophytes feed on the remains of dead plants and animals, and ordinarily do not cause disease. They release digestive enzymes onto the organic matter. The enzymes breakdown the large food molecules into smaller molecules, which are absorbed by the bacterial cells. Parasites live on or in living organisms, and may cause disease. A few types of bacteria are Autotrophic, they can synthesize the organic nutrients they require from inorganic substances. Autotrophic bacteria are either photosynthetic or Chemosynthetic. The photosynthetic bacteria contain chlorophyll that are different from the plant chlorophyll. In bacterial photosynthesis, hydrogen is obtained by the splitting of compounds other than water.
Leboffe, M. J., & Pierce, B. E. (2010). Microbiology: Laboratory Theory and Application, Third Edition 3rd Edition (3rd Ed.). Morton Publishing
I realized that I was looking directly at Michael Vincent, my interviewer almost the whole time. Nathan Copey also pointed out the fact that I did not just read my answers, but went in more detail to explain them. Nathan said,
When Ahmad cornered from the back of the schoolhouse, he witnessed the elder Science Teacher dashing across the barren road. The Teacher was preoccupied and nearly collide with an approaching honking truck. Once inside the elementary school, it took Ahmad a minute to find the chemistry lab as the Schoolmaster paced outside the class.