The BONES

What is the hardest part about knowing the bones of the body?

Your Idea

What is something that you have learned about the bone disorder that you are currently researching?

Osteoporosis

What is osteoporosis and how do you prevent it?

Broken Bones

Have you ever broken a bone? If so what bone did you break.

Lumbago

What is lumbago and what causes it?

Skull

What are the five bones of the skull that you feel are the most important?

What is this?

What is laminectomy and why does it occur?

Cloning Said to Yield Human Embryos

By ANDREW POLLACK
Published: January 18, 2008



The work represents a step toward the promise of creating personalized embryonic stem cells that could be used for medical treatments. Although the embryos grew only to a very early stage, the work could also theoretically be seen as a step toward creating babies that are genetic copies of other people.



The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18embryos.html?ref=us



Should we be able to clone people or is this ethically wrong?

Ranch Sells Beef for Dinner, Bones for Surgery

By Alexis Madrigal

Foot bones from Prather Ranch cows are cleaned, then turned into a variety of implants for humans, including these screws for knee surgeries.

Is it right that we are using animal bones to fix human problems? Do you think that there will be side affects of doing this in the long run?

Stronger Bones

There are new finding out that say some calcium pills, which people take to make strong bones, double your risk of a heart attack. What is this going to do to the thousand of people that take these calcium pills everyday?

Did you know

Check out the story on this page and tell me what your bones can do for you.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070811/fob1.asp

Skeletal Discovery: Bone cells affect metabolism

It was discovered that your bones could be licked back to diabetes in some cases. Could we really solve a problem like diabetes by fixing your bones.

Tell me what you think. full story at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070811/fob1.asp

Scientists Reveal Role Of Gene In Sensitivity To Thermal Pain

Did you know: Depending on the size of the individual, there are between 1.5 and 2 million sensory receptors in the skin which are sensitive to pain, pressure (touch) and temperature. These specialized sensory neurons, also called nociceptors, detect painful thermal and mechanical stimulation of the skin and transmit the information to the brain, where it is processed and consciously experienced as pain.

Scientists have altered a gene so that test animals, mice, don't feel pain or temperature as soon as they normally would. What could something like this be used for and is it ethical right to change our genetic makeup?

Homeostasis

Who does your skin help our body's to maintain homeostasis?

Skin Disease

Out of the presentations given in class which one was the most interesting or the most informative to you.

Ethanol

The news now is that grass makes better ethanol than corn. What is going to happen to all of the ethanol plants in South Dakota that were made to convert corn into ethanol and are not able to do this with grass? Will this in the long run harm the economy of South Dakota?

Brain Power

What does it take to discover something new everyday?

Laughing

The BBC has published a report that tells us that humans are not the only animals to have emotion, like happiness. Primates have been seen laughing. Does this help to prove an evolutionary like between humans and primates?