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In a normally functioning cell, the gene SerB codes for an enzyme which plays a role in the last step of serine production. Serine is an essential amino acid which is required for the cell to survive. The researchers in Hecht lab at Princeton University discovered that a synthetic protein SynSerB substitutes the SerB gene which is lacking in some of the cells. How did they design SynSerB and how does it help the cell? The ability of SynSerB to function as a substitute for SerB was first observed

THE PEDESTRIAN ANALYASIS The pedestrian is a short story written by Ray Bradbury in 1953, the story takes place in the year of 2053. In the story, we follow Leonard Mead as he goes for an evening stroll among tomb-like homes , until a police car interrupts him. In the end, the police car takes him away to ‘’the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.’’ The story is told using a third person limited narrator, which is great for keeping the story’s mysteries as mysteries, since

We have election of Trustees coming up in April. The POA documents call for an election of Trustees and they select individuals to serve as President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary. It isn’t real clear, but I don’t think the last two even have to be Trustees. In past years the major burden of running the POA fell on the shoulders of the President. In the past four years, the Trustees have spread the duties of the POA among the three of them making the job easier on everyone. The best

There are many things to consider as possible challenges when recreating this experiment. Contamination is one of the major ones, if for any given reason human error occurred when taping the mating agar plates, contamination could be produced and that sample will not be usable. Another major possible human error that can occur in this experiment is not remembering to put the hyphae side pf the fungal down, which could end up in no spores or improper growth. Some less major but important to take into

Chapter 7 speaks about research that has focused on suicide. It mentions that suicide is the eleventh leading cause of death in the United States and that adults white males are more likely to commit suicide. Gender suicide was another topic covered in the chapter and how men are more likely to commit suicide compared to women. China is the only exception to this subject because they the women consist of 56% of all female suicides globally (Kastenbaum, 2012). It also spoke how younger people from

Yes: Lindsey Getz, from “orthorexia” argues that in some measures it’s a reflection upon the obsession rather than something that just doing. People whose suffer from orthorexia turn their daily life into a restricted wealth thoughts and malnourished their body. They flip flop back and ford between different diets, because they struggle with daily balance and rational thoughts. Orthorexia is controversial for physicians and unfamiliar for dietitians. This disorder has not being officially recognized

Central lines are a common device used world wide in acute care settings for eligible patient populations such as those receiving chemotherapy, patients with poor venous access, or for those that require prolonged treatment of intravenous medications. Although central lines provide many advantages, they place patients at high risk for acquiring central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI). CLABSI's are a serious complication associated with central lines and in some cases can be life

The story starts with seventeenth century Salem, Massachusetts in a room. The room is that of Betty, Minister Parris’s daughter. His daughter is unconscious and still from the previous engagement she was a part of. She, his niece Abigail, his servant Tituba, and other girls were found dancing in the woods. The entire town is in an uproar about witchcraft and its effects it has had on Betty. In comes more characters, Ann Putnam Thomas Putnam among others to see the works of witch craft on Betty. They

The story begins with a ragged group of boys fighting against each other, and introduces one of the prominent themes of violence and chaos that reigned throughout the story. The story focuses on one of the boys, Jimmie, whose parents treat him and his siblings with little care and get intoxicated very often. The story flashes forward to their later teen years and we see that their father and that Jimmies younger brother has died, leaving only Jimmie, his sister Maggie, and their mother mary whom

Young Chinese Girls Footbinding in 900 C.E. In the article “Footbinding: From Status Symbol to Subjugation” Lousia Lima wrote about how Chinese women at young age had to footbinding. Footbinding at the young age is actually bad for their feet because their toes would bend from those shoes which it looks like they have small feet. Lima explained how it was started in china, “But historical records from the Song dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) date footbinding as beginning during the reign of Li Yu, who ruled