The Debate About Animal Experimentation: Benefits and Controversies
This series examines ethical and practical issues relating to the use of animal experimentation in science.
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Mercury in the Environment: The Minamata Bay Tragedy
Ignorance kills, but not always quickly or in an obvious manner. Find out why discharges from chemical plants in the 1950s to rivers and the ocean led …
Continue ReadingPreventing Disease: Using Technology in Biology
Preventing disease is a huge step in saving lives and cutting down the costs of treatments, over all care and cures. Learn how technology in biology …
Continue ReadingATP – Energy Rich Compound That Cells Need In Biochemical Processes
ATP plays a very important role in a living cell. It drives different cellular processes such as synthesis of new chemical compounds, membrane …
Continue ReadingThe Medical Benefits of Quiet Time
Have you had any quiet time today? Your body wants you to find some time to let stress go and relax.
Continue ReadingDoppler Ultrasound: Using the Doppler Effect for Medical Diagnosis
The Doppler effect is often used when discussing the weather forecast, but it’s also a tool that can be used to diagnose serious health …
Continue ReadingStem Cells: Part 4 - Cloning
Wrapping up the Stem Cell series is an in-depth look at how cloning is achieved through stem cells and what it means for the future of humanity.
Continue ReadingStem Cells: Part 2 - Cancer Treatments
In the second of this four-part series, we examine stem cells in regards to cancer treatments.
Continue ReadingCell-Mediated Immunity
This third part of a series about different arms of the immune response looks at the cell-mediated immune response.
Continue ReadingHow Antibody Mediated Immunity Helps Fight Disease
This fourth part of a series on focuses on antibody mediated immunity and how it affects the way your body fights foreign bodies.
Continue ReadingInnate and Adaptive Immunity
This first part of a series about different arms of the immune response looks at the innate and adaptive immune responses.
Continue ReadingLearn About the Types of Antibodies the Immune System Uses to Combat Infectious Organisms
This fifth part of a series about different arms of the immune system responds to different types of antibody particles, and their functions.
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