Mr. Hartan's Science Class
"Knowledge is a reckoning . . . a way to assess your location, your true position, not a strategy for improving your position." -Walter Kirn-Archive for March, 2009
8 Scientists Who Became Their Own Guinea Pigs
Eight Scientists Who Became Their Own Guinea Pigs
11 March 2009 by Eleanor Harris
JBS Haldane entering a deep-sea diving chamber on 1 January 1941 – repeated bouts of decompression would leave him prone to seizures, partly deaf, and able to blow smoke through one of his ears (Image: Hans Wild / Time Life Pictures/Getty)
Understanding the Implication(s)of Stem Cells
Click on either of the pictures above to go to the Harvard/HHMI website where you can view a beautiful animation on Stem Cells.
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome and Sex-linked Disorders (Article Response)
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/figsonly/65/11/E25
Background Information:
Lesch-Nyhan Sydnrome is a sex-linked disorder that can show much variation in terms of how the disorder expresses itself. Please be aware that not every Lesch-Nyhan child self-mutilates. Lesch-Nyhan variants (about 2%) are those individuals with the disorder that exhibit less destructive forms of the disease. A Facebook page devoted to Lesch-Nyhan variants can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19576868476
Assignment:
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You will be summarizing the article that you have been provided in class. The first paragraph should summarize the entire article. The second paragraph should detail how the article relates to what we have learned in class (write like a geneticist). The third paragraph should outline your thoughts, ideas, reactions to the article. A Facebook page devoted to Lesch-Nyhan variants can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19576868476:
You May Also Find This Interesting:
- Follow the audio link below for an interview with Richard Preston (author of the Hot Zone). Preston discusses his new book: Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Listen carefully for his discussion about Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome.
NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91240348
