Stem Cells

Stem cells are small amount of cells that creates other cells through mitosis, stem cells are unspecialized cells that can specialize themselves into specific functions. It is used in medicine to repair damaged cells in our bodies that our bodies can't repair by themselves, some damage in our bodies can't be repaired because we can't produce the right cell to repair it, and so stem cells with their specific functions can be the right cell to repair it. In the e-textbook it's said that it was able to reverse the effects of brain injury on mice, so if this method of implanting stem cells as a treatment works for human then the future of the medical world will be very good because these injuries that used to be untreatable can now be treatable by the use of stem cells. Stem cell treatments uses stem cells to replace the damage cells, but in wikipedia it's also said that it could have a side effect, but very minimal. So I think it's good to support this new treatment because brain injuries are very serious and so anything being able to treat it should always be supported.

Bill Bryson's Imagery

"It's all just random frantic action, a sequence of endless encounters directed by nothing more than elemental rules of attraction and repulsion...It just happen, smoothly and repeatedly." This quote made me think of an image of a very hectic and chaotic factory where bunch of workers bump into each other trying to get stuff to where they're suppose to be at, but even so it all works out to be a sweet harmony and makes us what we are and how we function. It changed my perspective of cells because I didn't know nor was I ever interested in how cells work, I felt like I had full control over my body but it's actually these cells control me, and they control me without any thinking process behind it, they just work it out and it works, that's what was really interesting about this quote for me.


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Ecology Project Blog 2

Everything is now done, the research took a really long while to finish because the information was hard to find, my topic was pretty vague and big and so I have to look for information that could relate to my topic in the end I found some data but I wasn't that satisfied with it because it's only some species not all. The website is pretty much done as well, it was a bit hard because this is new to me and so I'm learning new things everyday about how to make a website, the most annoying problem for me is about pasting pictures because I find it so hard to move it around freely and it keeps messing up the words. In the end it was a pretty fun project and we got to build some teamwork by working on the website as a whole class.