The Tallahassee Democrat News, a site that is part of the USA Today Network, reports current news on scientific advancements. The article, Fruit Flies Yield Clues On Cancerous Tumor Hotspots, offers an overview of the research done by Yoichiro Tamori, Wu-Min Deng, and Emiko Suzuki, who have discovered that epithelial tissues in fruit flies can be cancerous. The reasoning behind studying fruit flies is because, “Flies and humans have a lot in common in terms of genes and pathways for developing cancer” (Haughney). In the article, the researchers explain that the tumor hot spots, which appear to be near the epithelial tissues, found in fruit flies have also been found in several human cancers, “These tumor hotspots all involved an oncogenic signaling pathway that have been shown to play a part in many types of human cancers” (Haughney). However, the scientists do assure the reader that in distinct areas of the epithelial tissue there are tumor cold spots. Without a doubt, this is the beginning of a prolonged experiment, “The more we know, the better we can get at treating and preventing cancer” (Haughney). …show more content…
It is stated in the article that humans and fruit flies share similar genes, thus the scientists conducted the experiment on fruit flies, therefore, it is of high importance to implement this new data to help treat and prevent human cancers. If research continues to prosper and scientists like Tamori, Deng, and Suzuki extend their experiment from fruit flies to humans, there is a possibility that they may find factors that cause the development of tumors in humans. Tamori, Deng, and Suzuki were able to generate a thesis regarding the part epithelial tissues play in the development of tumors in fruit flies and then transcribe that information and correlate it to tumors in
Power is the ability to control. This book is about Tom Robinson accused of rape. Tom is black and is going through an arduous time period for people of color. In this case Tom ended up being guilty.
Crack! The baseball struck the bat, echoing throughout the hot air of the barren wasteland. Every afternoon the young boys gather between the barrack blocks to begin their daily, friendly match of baseball, while all of their parents are hard at work throughout the center. A Japanese American boy stands nearby with his hand in his pocket, and the sun beaming on his neck. Watching the two teams of the camp put on their hats, one of the younger little boys stands anxiously, waiting for his turn at bat. He steps up to the plate, and digs his feet into the scorching dirt, and lifts the bat over his shoulder. He gives a nod to the pitcher, crack! The boy squinted into the big blue sky, while the ball hit a sign that read, Manzanar Relocation Center.
Fruit flies with normal wings have a higher population and greatly outnumber the population of fruit flies with dichaete or vestigial wings.
Cancer is a multi-step disease that can originate from any cell type, but the majority of human cancers are epithelia-derived carcinomas (Yang and Weinberg 2008). The first step in
At the end of our experiment, we were able to calculate the error percentage with the actual calculations. We were also able to compare the Punnett squares too. Some of the actual calculations were quite different than the expected, while others were spot on. One example is with normal wings, yellow body, our actual was two thousand two hundred and eighty-four flies and so was our expected. Whether the results were spot on or completely different we still had results to compare to the expected amount of each type of fly.
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This illustrates how children develop cancer from different types of carcinogenic and genes, this will be used in the introduction of my essay.
In the last century, we human beings have discovered copious amounts about our own biochemistry: from genetics to development, behaviour to the origin of species, and evolution to aging. The reason many of these biological findings have been discovered is as a result of Drosophila melanogaster (the binomial nomenclature for the fruit fly) . Astonishingly, the fruit fly has been the tiny test subject from which some of the 20th century's greatest biological discoveries have arisen. In fact, crucial information such as the dangers of radiation, the principles of heredity and the causes and cures for many diseases are all built on the foundation of fruit fly research. Subsequently, I believe the greatest biological discovery of the 20th century
“The Emperor of All Maladies” captured the whole essence of cancer. This book gave a very good narrative of the historical record of cancer, the scientists and important public figures who contributed to the fight against a disease that has so much caused despair, pain, disfiguring of the body and worst of all, death. Cancer is seen as the abnormal growth of cells. A normal cell becomes cancerous when there is a defect in the regulation of its growth. Cancerous cells also tend to be elusive and resistant to treatments. Numerous attempts have been channeled into demystifying the nature of cancer. Some of these attempts proved abortive while a few served as a harbinger of hope. Cancer have proved to be part of our genetic makeup, hence, total eradication of it remains a future accomplishment.
While there are several biological factors that have the ability to lead to cancer, genetics is the most currently researched. A study done by Bharaj, Scorilas, Giai and
world, have been related to the causes of many types of cancer. Some of the most
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The report will investigate the efficiency of tidal energy in the UK. With fossil fuel reserves declining and the increasing threat from climate change has resulted in the emergence of the renewable energy market.