Bacteria Lab Write-Up Jianna Liu P8 Purpose: The purpose of this lab is to find out which substance‚ alcohol‚ antibacterial soap‚ water‚ or hydrogen peroxide‚ is the best at preventing the growth of bacteria. Hypothesis: Antibacterial soap will be the best because soap is a substance that people use to wash their hands because it takes away the germs. Even the name‚ antibacterial soap‚ suggests that it fights off bacteria. Hydrogen peroxide is second because it is used
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How would you like to be a lab rat forced to have painful medical experiments done upon you? This happened many times to war prisoners captured by the Nazis during World War 2. Many of the human test subjects were killed and the few who survived were never left the same again‚ many were left crippled‚ and physically and mentally disabled. After the war‚ unconsented Human Experimentation has been banned by the Nuremberg Code since the inhumane Nazi experiments on human prisoners during World War 2
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diseases‚ including malaria‚ typhus‚ tuberculosis‚ typhoid fever‚ yellow fever‚ and infectious hepatitis”(Nazi Medical Experiments ushmm). The Ravensbruck camp conducted bone grafting experiments to test the efficiency of the newly developed sulfa (sulfanilamide) drugs. They would inject the victim with bacteria and then inject the medicine to see if it could cure the person. The Natzweiler and Sachsenhausen camp prisoners were subjected to mustard gas and phosgene to figure out and test possible antidotes
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Penicillin would be used to treat infections that wounded and ill soldiers suffered during World War II. This proved that penicillin had a vital importance to save lives. Penicillin prevented thousands of wartime deaths. After the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7‚ 1941‚ it became clear that a mass amount of penicillin needed to be produced in order to win the war. The U.S. was able to produce 2.3 million portions of penicillin in order to prepare for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Penicillin
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2000- 2009‚ related to drug safety and pharmacovigilance (detecting‚ assessing and preventing drugs side effects) were discussed to investigate the adverse effects of any drug. Results Introduction to drug safety After the introduction of Sulfanilamide in 1983‚ the first sulfa antimicrobial drug‚ one hundred and five patients died due to its toxicity. Because of this tragedy‚ the American Congress established the Food‚ Drug and Cosmetic Act‚ which asked the pharmaceutical companies to provide
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Adolf Hitler once said‚ "The Jew is a parasite. Wherever he flourishes‚ the people will die… Elimination of the Jew from our community is to be regarded as an emergency defense measure." During World War II‚ Hitler made it his mission to overpower the Jews who had made their homes in Germany and Eastern Europe; he felt he needed revenge on the people who had caused his home country to fall victim during World War I. Because of his desire to make the land free of racial impurities‚ he often went
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temperature. The person was basically boiled to death. Physicians would test the human reactions to different types of poisons by secretly administering them to the prisoner’s food. One particularly gruesome series of experiments were known as sulfanilamide experiments. These experiments were conducted by inflicting a wound on a patient and purposely infecting it with different strains of numerous kinds of bacteria. After‚ the Nazi Doctors would shove wood shavings and glass shards into the infected
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During World War two Hitler set up concentration camps for Jews or other hated groups. In these camps help various torturous experiments. Some reasons why experiments were held was a.) to help the army‚ b.) to help Germany after the war‚ and c.) to prove the racial ideas invented by the Nazis. They were even used to test new drugs invented by German companies. The Axis military personnel conducted high altitude experiments using low pressure chambers. They did this to determine the maximum altitude
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In the 1930’s‚ during the Great Depression‚ Hitler was presented with an opportunity to persuade the German public of his anti-Semitic ideas through the use of propaganda. This was an easy task for Hitler to accomplish with the morale of the country already low after their defeat in World War I‚ 15 years prior. Germany was reeling from the effects of the New York stock market crash and the German people were seeking a leader who inspired confidence and would return hope for a better future. All
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May 1‚ 2013 Enzymes as Drug Targets Enzymes are defined as any of numerous proteins produced in living cells that accelerate or catalyze the metabolic processes of an organism. Enzymes are usually very selective in the molecules that they act upon‚ called substrates‚ often reacting with only a single substrate. The substrate binds to the enzyme at a location called the active site just before the reaction catalyzed by the enzyme takes place. Enzymes can speed up chemical reactions by up to
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