I looked up each molecular biologist and used Wikipedia to get a brief overview of each individual. Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff came my eye because she was part of a team that discovered how bacterial cells can be used to make insulin and I wanted to know more on how the bacteria was able to do this. Villa-Komaroff attended University of Washington in Seattle, majoring in chemistry (United Neighborhood Houses). She was struggling in chemistry and went to her adviser for assistance. Her adviser told her that women don’t belong in chemistry (Makers). So she switched to her major in biology, earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Goucher College and a Ph.D in cell biology at MIT (United Neighborhood Houses, Makers). Her focus was on the methods …show more content…
The bacteria are placed into a fermentation tank and begin to produce insulin (United States National Library of Medicine). The insulin is harvested and purified to be used as medicine (United States National Library of Medicine). Her findings greatly impact molecular biology because they were able to grow a hormone outside of the human body. They used the technology of recombinant DNA. This same mechanism can be used to create various medicines to treat specific illnesses. This has great impact in my field of interest which is the medical field. Getting an understanding from her work will enable doctors and scientist to develop treatments for cancer, diabetes, any genetic disorder. Doctors and scientist can work in tandem to get specific genes that generate a protein and provide it to those who are not able to make a specific protein. For example, some people have lactose intolerance like me. Scientist can isolate genes that encode for lactase and insert it into some bacteria. Allow that bacteria to multiply and produce the lactase. That lactase can be harvested and purified to produce a lactase supplement for lactose-intolerant
Francis Crick: He does the same research with Watson, they are both teammates. He is also eager to know what is in DNA and the relationship of it with the double-helix.
Rosalind Franklin helped develop the double-stranded helix structure of DNA, which she is rarely given credit for; while Jane Goodall extensively studied the behavior of apes. Both of these women have been audacious not only for doing great things for science, but also for pushing against the norm of only men being able to make discoveries. Being adventurous propels people into seeking new ideas and finding solutions, fixing thought to be unsolvable
The next person I will be analyzing is Rosalind Franklin. Rosalind Franklin had one of the biggest accomplishments, but was put down my list because of her difficulties. Rosalind Franklin's strongest accomplishment was Watson and Crick saw some of her unpublished data, including the beautiful "photo 51," shown to Watson by Wilkins. This X-ray diffraction picture of a DNA molecule was Watson's inspiration (the pattern was clearly a helix). Using Franklin's photograph and their own data, Watson and Crick created their famous DNA model. Franklin's contribution was not acknowledged, but after her death Crick said that her contribution had been critical. Without that data and the photo 51 the double Helix never would’ve been discovered. Another pro was, “Rosy had had evidence for a new three-dimensional form of DNA” (167). This was just another example of Rosy having information that the team
And yet, Henrietta Lacks was indirectly responsible for one of the biggest medical breakthroughs of all time, and part of her lives on today.
Do you know how to sequence DNA? How about trying to explain the proteins of insulin? Frederick Sanger would be doing your homework for a long time; Frederick Sanger worked in the field of Biochemistry. Frederick was born on August 13, 1918 in Gloucestershire, England. His father, also Frederick Sanger was a medical practitioner. Later in life he became interested in biology. He was above average in class but not at the top of his class. Frederick went to the University of Cambridge and got his B.A. degree in 1939 but, remained at the University for an extra year to take advanced Biochemistry. Frederick surprised everyone including himself by obtaining a first class examination result. Since he was a pacifist he was a conscientious
" This research relates to my film because, people started to explore more about the human body and started to look into the microbiology of a human. Human curiosity helped in creating new technology to make much progress in medicine, "Other research aided by the ultracentrifuge included the separation of subcellular organelles, the development of understanding DNA, and the discovery of the methodology for carrying out genetic
Due to her motivation to understand Crystallography, Dr. Hodgkin was able to make important discoveries in different areas of science. These discoveries have each made a positive change for society:
One thing the author did miss was writing down the scientist name she referred them as "scientists" or "researchers" I would have appreciated names and/or places they are working at like facilities or universities.
Eric Lander research was used to address and map out the human genome in order to understand the basics of diseases and cancers.
After that she left and started assisting with X-ray diffraction. This was a gynormous step in the direction of her greatest discovery of the DNA Strand Structure. She had discovered the structure while taking X-rays of the DNA. Her photographs are still really important and amazing to this day. Rosalind made one of the biggest and greatest break threw in scientific history.
Throughout the span of time there have been many great scientists. Thomas hunt has stood out through his practice and was one of the scientists to help create the chromosome theory of heredity. Morgan was in school for the majority of his life either as a student or as a professor. He also helped the world understand more about genetics in a very proactive way.
A good use is creating insulin by placing human gene for insulin into the bacteria E. coli. (Davis) On the other hand, genetic engineering can be harmful by allowing people to specifically pick what type of baby they want to have through artificial selection, not to mention reject one they disapprove of. As is evident from these statements, this kind of technology in the wrong hands, such as those of doctor Frankenstein, could wipe out or cripple humanity. Even if the scientists had no intention of hurting humanity in the manner of the protagonist of Mary Shelly’s lionized
to our ability to combat many infectious diseases. Describe how the work of each of the following scientists has contributed to our ability to control some human infections.
She was the best X-ray crystallographer among her colleagues, and therefore had the position to work for a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) project, which led to a misunderstanding within Rosalind’s group (Vanderpool 2009). She worked together with her PhD student Ryan Gosling on much of the research, but also faced many challenges because she was the only woman in the group (Vanderpool 2009). After vigorous work, she could discover the two fibers in DNA. Rosalind and Gosling worked very hard but could not interpret their result, and this caught the attention of her colleagues. Her colleagues published their findings about DNA having double helix, but refused to give her proper credit for her work. After a while, Birkbeck College in London where she published many papers. She was the author of many books relating to science. She continued her research despite of all the challenges she faced at work and the society did little to help solved the stenotype behind women in science.
Rosalind Franklin’s work on DNA was crucial in discovering the composition of the human body as a whole. Her x-ray photo revealed a double helix structure and she also discovered the A and B form of DNA. She worked through the adversity of being a female in a predominately male dominated realm and made remarkable findings that were eventually stolen. She adapted to a new lab with antiquated technology. Before this discovery, the structure of DNA was thought to be simple. Scientist, Watson and Crick, started with the wrong structure of DNA from a misinterpretation of notes from one of Franklin’s presentations. Unlike Watson and Crick, Rosalind Franklin could explain DNA and how it worked.