Biology
Today we worked on a cancer/cell cycle poster. I actually learned a lot about cancer that I didn't even know a out before. I didn't even know that cells had anything to do with cancer. I also saw a lot of mutated cancer cells that were weird looking.
- Double Blasted
In this podcast, I learned about a man who survived two nuclear bombs and lived until an old age. Both accounts he was about a mile away. During a nuclear bomb, the gamma rays attack DNA and a mutation occurs. As far as the scientists know, nuclear blasts...
- Oncogene
Term: oncogene Literally meaning: ?cancer gene?Origin: Anc Greek?????/ogos(=volume) > ????? /ogoo(=raise, establish) ?????/ genea(=generation) > ?????/geno (=birth to) >Coined/HistoryIn 1969, Robert Huebner and George Todaro proposed the ?oncogene?...
- Cancer
Term: cancer Origin: Anc Greek ????????/carkinos(=crab) ???????? > ???????+???? (= hard+move) Coined: by Hippocrates (ca. 460 BC ? ca. 370 BC) who noted similarity of crabs to some tumors and especially he used the Greek words carcinos" and "carcinoma"...
- Week Seven: Cell Biology And Cancer
Western Approaches to Cancer I think the Western approach to Cancer is very unsophisticated. There are too many anomalies to believe that we have the whole story. Why do some patients survive when they are not expected to, and the other way around? It...
- Cancer: Types, Causes, Diagnosis And Treatment
CANCER · Cancer is an abnormal and uncontrolled multiplication of cells resulting in the formation of tumor.· Normal cells show a contact inhibition (contact with the other cells inhibits their uncontrolled growth)....
Biology
2/20/14
Today we worked on a cancer/cell cycle poster. I actually learned a lot about cancer that I didn't even know a out before. I didn't even know that cells had anything to do with cancer. I also saw a lot of mutated cancer cells that were weird looking.
- Double Blasted
In this podcast, I learned about a man who survived two nuclear bombs and lived until an old age. Both accounts he was about a mile away. During a nuclear bomb, the gamma rays attack DNA and a mutation occurs. As far as the scientists know, nuclear blasts...
- Oncogene
Term: oncogene Literally meaning: ?cancer gene?Origin: Anc Greek?????/ogos(=volume) > ????? /ogoo(=raise, establish) ?????/ genea(=generation) > ?????/geno (=birth to) >Coined/HistoryIn 1969, Robert Huebner and George Todaro proposed the ?oncogene?...
- Cancer
Term: cancer Origin: Anc Greek ????????/carkinos(=crab) ???????? > ???????+???? (= hard+move) Coined: by Hippocrates (ca. 460 BC ? ca. 370 BC) who noted similarity of crabs to some tumors and especially he used the Greek words carcinos" and "carcinoma"...
- Week Seven: Cell Biology And Cancer
Western Approaches to Cancer I think the Western approach to Cancer is very unsophisticated. There are too many anomalies to believe that we have the whole story. Why do some patients survive when they are not expected to, and the other way around? It...
- Cancer: Types, Causes, Diagnosis And Treatment
CANCER · Cancer is an abnormal and uncontrolled multiplication of cells resulting in the formation of tumor.· Normal cells show a contact inhibition (contact with the other cells inhibits their uncontrolled growth)....