Thursday, January 15, 2009

Codes for killers:knowledge of microbes could lead to cures

scientists have deciphered the DNA of a parasites that cause 3 deadly diseases: African sleeping sickness , Chagas' disease, and leishmaniasis. This information could help them find a cure to the diseases that have killed about more than 1 million people each year. The diseases are caused by related protozoa in a group known as trypanosomatids - single celled organisms that are moved back and fourth to at least two hosts , alot of the time a blood-eating insect and a person .It can cause heart,stomach, and brain damage, and can enlarge your spleen and liver.So i think that we need to find something that helps theses kind of diseases because if we don't then alot of people could die from it and thats not good and you never know what happend if you ended up getting it and you were dying from the disease wouldnt you want someone to help you or the scientists find something that would make you better.I know i would.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Dog on the wing

The dog on the wing is another name for a yellow-and-black butterfly named the Zerene Cesonia.Its very fast almost nerly implosible to get real close to even get a very good look at it. People started calling it the "dog on the wing" because it has the features of a dog. it has two black donts marked the "eyes" of two yellow headed poodles, profiled against black. with wings closed, a dog's face may still be glimpsed when lit from behing .and during the fall the markings turn pink and well the females have more subtle color then the male.There are also butterflys called the Southern dogfaces - which occur year-round throughout most of Texas -its a group of yellow ,orange and white butterflies. to me this is a really very interesting thing to know about all this insects because i would have never guessed that they would compare a butterfly to a dog at all because i just didn't think that a butterfly would ever look like a dog or have features of one.

Friday, September 26, 2008

"Real bionic Woman"

Mitchell is a 27 year old woman that had her arm cut off when she got in a reck and now she has been going threw some stuff. The scientist there were she is has made an robotic arm and has attacked it to her shoulder were she lost her other arm at and has gone in and like did some things to her muscles in there and now she can move her arm and she was very happy because the first time they did some test on her new arm she couldn't do anything with it it wouldnt move or nothing but now that they redid it she can move it and a while after words she could start to feel her arm that was fake but she could feel the heat off of stuff and the water and stuff and i think it is very good that they have found that because now they can help alot of people in the world with her exact problem