Oral Presentation #1: The first presentation that I attended during the STARS Symposium was about Environmental Science and Ecology. The presenter was Jamie Lane, and she was a Environmental Science graduate student at UIS. Her presentation was called “Spatial Association Between Bison and Brown-Headed Cowbirds” and it focused on a species, the brown-headed cowbird, that had not been studied much previously. The purpose of this study was to reveal the relationship between bison and the brown-headed cowbirds, and also to observe the distance between female cowbirds in feeding and nonfeeding ranges. Jamie Lane did not mention a specific hypothesis for her research. To carry out this study, Jamie Lane and others who helped her tagged 20 …show more content…
The poster presentation was presented by Martina Martin, a senior who is a Clinical Lab Science major at UIS. Her presentation was titled “Take Back Your Stem Cells: The Key to Treatment of Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma” and it explains how your own stem cells can help treat and cure a rare form of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Martina’s purpose of this experiment was to find the best treatment option for this patient that would be the least impactful on the patient. What happened is that a perfectly healthy 67 year old female suddenly started getting scabbing and itchy rashes all her her skin while in the Dominican Republic in January. She agreed to go through with this special treatment that entailed high-dose chemotherapy and then the harvesting, treating, and reimplantation of her own stem cells back into her own body. This allowed her to not need immunosuppressant drugs to lower the risk of rejection, because the stem cells are hers and would not be attacked by her own body. As a result, she was able to leave an hour after the transplant and be at her house during the recovery process as there was no risk of infection involved. As a result of this different treatment, her family saved $129,000 that would have otherwise gone to hospital bills if she would have had the normal stem cell transplant from a different donor. Overall, the cost to her family was only $250,000 compared to the $500,000 that it would have been if she had gotten a transplant from a different donor and therefore would have required an extensive hospital stay. Martina concluded that this treatment of using one’s own stem cells to help treat this rare form of cancer would result in a better chance of complete remission from this cancer. She also concluded that this was beneficial for this female patient because it prevented having to be exposed to immunosuppressants and
The family first heard that Henrietta’s cells were alive and being sent around the world, twenty-two years after Henrietta’s death. After discovering that Henrietta’s cells were in circulation, the family began to blame John Hopkins for taking Henrietta’s cells without permission and commercializing the cells to make multi-million dollar industry, while her family was living in poverty without health insurance. The John Hopkins Hospital has made various statements stating that the hospital never received funds for the HeLa cells specifying that Gey donated all of his HeLa cells samples to fellow researchers. Therefore, the sole benefactors of the HeLa cells profits are the biotechnology companies, which sell vials of HeLa cells for up to ten thousand
Lymphoid tissue is made up of cells called lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that fights infection. There are 2 major types of lymphocytes: B lymphocytes (B cells) and T lymphocytes (T cells). Normal T cells and B cells have different jobs. But because all the importance of these cells they can travel around the body spreading the cancerous cells. There are four stages for Hodgkin’s lymphoma when testing is completed the doctors can determine what stage the cancer is at and what treatment will be best suited to fighting the disease.
Although the cells originated from Henrietta Lack, the family was never informed that her cells were taken and being used all over the world for research, nor would they ever realize how much money those cells were generating. Major corporations were mass producing and replicating HeLa cells for many different purposes and articles were being published revealing the importance of the cells, all while the Lacks family were kept in the dark. The HeLa factory was created in Tuskegee to find a polio vaccination and experiments were taking place by mixing the cells with blood from volunteers. At this point in time, the cells were being sent to anyone willing to buy them and a multibillion dollar industry emerged (p. 101). Johns Hopkins Hospital also reaped the befits of HeLa. Although they gave away cells willingly, they were the birthplace of Henrietta’s cells and made lots of money from them.
Due to her cells being taken there have been a number of amazing discoveries and cures in the medical field, but it also brought pain and suffering for her family. The Lacks family was not even aware of Henrietta’s cells being taken, let alone that they were still alive and used in science. Of course Henrietta’s cells have helped to maintain sustainability within the human race by allowing there to be cures and medicine for all types of diseases and sickness; therefore the her cells being taken can be seen in a positive light.
Going into details of the article, I realized that the necessary information needed to evaluate the experimental procedures were not included. However, when conducting an experiment, the independent and dependent variable are to be studied before giving a final conclusion.
Lastly, in step seven we “monitor, evaluate, and document the decision” (p.166). As I made my personal decision, it is not the final decision. Next Thursday, the physicians, foster parents, myself, and Lori will all meet to determine what decision will be made for Lori to receive or not to receive the bone marrow transplant. This will give everyone time to research and determine what decision they think is best for Lori, and be able to explain
...ut it, this helpless young girl would have died in the same hospital she was born in, hooked to the same machine she had always been tied to and trapped in the same hell she had always known. But, with this technology, Hannah is able to lead a normal life at home with her loving family and enjoy all of the best parts of life as a normal and happy child. Hannah is only one of a countless number of people that was helped and will be helped by this astounding innovation. the applications of stem cell therapy are boundless. just think what this means for your loved ones. think what implications this holds for the entirety of mankind. stem cell research is the life preserver that will save humankind from the myre of problems it has caused for itself and many others that is hasn't. it is like the water used to douse the fire of the aggregation of all of our problems.
In response to the question set, I will go into detail of the study, consisting of the background, main hypotheses, as well the aims, procedure and results gathered from the study; explaining the four research methods chosen to investigate, furthering into the three methods actually tested.
“Top Ten Things to Know About Stem Cell Treatments.” Www.closerlookatstemcells.org ISSCR. Web 1 November 2013
In 1951, the sickness of a poor African American woman named Henrietta Lacks -also know as HeLa- would go on to change the face of scientific research; without her consent. Henrietta Lacks went into John Hopkins Hospital in hopes of medical treatment, but instead her cells were unlawfully stolen from her and used for scientific advances in the world of medicine for the creations of the polio vaccine, cell cloning, vitro fertilization, and gene mapping. Long after Henrietta's death, Henrietta's family was forced to live a life of poverty without medical insurance simply because they could not afford it although their mothers cells had yielded billions of dollars due to its advances in the medical world. The scientific community and the media
Describe the differences in the results between the groups in the study and support your description with examples from the study
Pluripotent stem cells help in the process of regenerative medicine. These cells are able to take on many forms, which allows the body to help regenerate the parts needed in or on our body. The Asteria immunotherapy method aids patients in the area of cancer. Asterias’s research in this subject has led to an achievement of a 58% relapse-free remission rate. The associates at Asteria have wide ranging experience in these areas and are all confident that the therapies mentioned hold great opportunity for the upcoming
...the data did not involve member checking thus reducing its robustness and enable to exclude researcher’s bias. Although a constant comparative method was evident in the discussion which improved the plausibility of the final findings. Themes identified were well corroborated but not declared was anytime a point of theoretical saturation Thus, the published report was found to be particularly strong in the area of believability and dependability; less strong in the area of transferability; and is weak in the area of credibility and confirmability, although, editorial limitations can be a barrier in providing a detailed account (Craig & Smyth, 2007; Ryan, Coughlan, & Cronin, 2007).
The study consisted of a significant number of females compared to males, which makes it invalid to conclude that the findings support the general population. A strength was that participants were selected at random. By doing so, the study remained unbiased, thus making the results more credible.
...there are some risk factors in using stem cell for therapeutic approaches, hematopoietic stem cell therapy by bone marrow transplantation has already been proofed to be safe if donors’ background and screening, cell contamination, HLA matching and opportunistic or nosocomial infections during immunocompromised period were carefully monitored and controlled. Still, other types of stem cell therapies, despite of their good therapeutic efficacy, are remain in experimental stage and need more data to support and demonstrate the safety in clinical trials. More understanding of stem cell biology is also required in order to keep stem cell under controlled and avoid some complications that they might cause. So, to pave the way for successful stem cell therapy, research in this extent is needed to pursue to maximized therapeutic efficiency with highest safety in patients.