Monthly Archives: May 2012

The article above involves the individuals that smoke and the individuals that do not smoke in their households. This article caught my attention because not to long ago I lived in a building that revolved around a lot of smokers … Continue reading →

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/30-turning-lymph-nodes-into-liver-growing-factories This article talks about a new technique under development by a stem cell researcher named Eric Lagasse in University of Pittsburgh that can turn any one of the body’s lymph nodes, the small, oval-shaped organs where immune cells gather to … Continue reading →

This article relates to the discussion of the immune system which we had in class, i found this to be significant in learning about the immune systems and its functions. The article discusses how a new study performed on lab … Continue reading →

Medical researchers are working 
on new kinds of vaccines 
that could cure everything from 
diabetes to nicotine addiction Two centuries ago Edward Jenner administered the first scientifically developed vaccine, injecting fluid from a dairymaid’s skin lesion into an 8-year-old boy. The English … Continue reading →