substance structures that can be beneficial to the world today. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a warm and caring woman who made many contributions to the world of chemistry‚ such as determining by X-ray crystallography the structures of penicillin‚ insulin‚ and vitamin B-12. Dorothy Hodgkin was born on May 12‚ 1910 in Cairo‚ Egypt. Though she was born in Egypt she is actually British. John Winter and Grace Mary Crowfoot‚ her parents‚ had her. In Dorothy’s early years of life she took formal schooling
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1 Varun Jagannath XI B Oakridge International School‚ Hyderabad 2 Table of contents KIRAN MAZUMDAR SHAW ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction: ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Educational Qualifications & Personal Life ....................................
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Animal testing can result in medical breakthroughs; for example‚ “...dogs had their pancreases removed [which] led directly to the discovery of insulin‚ critical to saving the lives of diabetics” (“Should Animals Be Used” 1)‚ but this can also lead to a harmful intake on animals. The experimentation on dogs led to a breakthrough and made the human race’s lives safer‚ but what it comes down
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Homeostasis literally means “same state” and it refers to the process of keeping the internal body environment in a steady state‚ when the external environment is changed. The importance of this cannot be over-stressed‚ as it allows enzymes etc to be ‘fine-tuned’ to a particular set of conditions‚ and so to operate more efficiently. Much of the hormone system and autonomic nervous systems is dedicated to homeostasis‚ and their action is coordinated by the hypothalamus. In Module 2 we saw how
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2013. . "New lead for myotonic dystrophy treatment | Muscular Dystrophy Campaign." Muscular Dystrophy Campaign - leading the fight against muscle-wasting conditions | Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 23 May 2013. . "Postabsorptive and insulin-stimulated energy and protein metabolism in patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 ." The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 23 May 2013. . "Research | Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy | MDA." MDA | Muscular Dystrophy Association
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Over the past few centuries scientists have tried to solve the mysteries of disease through a plethora of different testing methods. The most popular method that is in effect presently is animal based tests. While these tests are the most commonly used‚ are they the best in terms of morality and accuracy? Animal tests inflict forms of torture upon defenseless creatures in order to discover the solution to medical problems. Testing animals provide‚ for the most part‚ inaccurate results‚ while
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medical products. Insulin production is an excellent example of the recombinant DNA process. Host organisms can range from bacteria like E. coli‚ to plants‚ to animals. * Genetic engineering can be used to produce chemicals and hormones that the body requires. For an example we’ll use insulin for a diabetic person. First remove a certain gene from a human cell using a restriction enzyme‚ in this instance we’ll "cut" out the gene for producing insulin. Second extract
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oncology and internal medicine‚ as well as metabolic diseases‚ central nervous system disorders and vaccines. LANTUS is one of the major key products of Sanofi-Aventis that is used for treating Diabetes. | | | LANTUS is a long- acting human insulin analog indicated to improve glycemic control in adults and children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and in adults
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pancreas and insulin formation The pancreas is an elongated organ situated next to the first part of the small intestine. It is both an endocrine gland that produces hormones‚ such as insulin and glucagon‚ and an exocrine gland producing digestive enzymes‚ such as trypsin and chymotrypsin (Martini‚ 2004). It is located behind the stomach‚ between the spleen and the duodenum (see Figure 2). It contains a group of cells called the islets of Langerhans‚ in which the beta cells secrete insulin and the alpha
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As early as the 1920’s one of the first convulsion therapy using insulin was administered on schizophrenic patients. Patients were injected with insulin to induce a coma (sometimes it induced convulsions)‚ than they would inject glucose to wake them up. Even though it had high risk it outweighed the positive benefits it had on the patient. Another drug Metrazol
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