Tough Questions with Science: All the small things.
This week’s assignment is to explain why the public should care. Specifically, why they should care about the article we read which covers Alzheimer’...
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The Path to Cell Destruction
This week my classmates and I dissected an article pertaining to the MAPK signaling cascade and its role in neurodegenerative diseases. Diseases such as Parkins...
Link between Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Free radicals and Anti-oxidants!
Did you know that Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease share the same causal cellular pathway? This pathway is the MAPK pathway which is involved in cell...
Breaking Bad's Cancer
I’m sure many of you have at least heard of AMC’s hit show Breaking Bad. The show follows the story of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who was dia...
Stress, the Silent Killer
For years, doctors and other health professionals have been telling us that too much stress can kill us. Well, it’s true. Increasing research is showing that st...
New gene mutation is most common cause of ALS
This week’s article emphasized the role of a particular pathway of kinases – the MAPK pathway– that often leads to cell death in various well-known diseases inc...
Introduction to the development of Cancer
Medical advances have allowed both an extended human life span and an improved quality of life. There is a downfall however, the longer we live the more likely ...
How far down does the PD rabbit hole go?
Most people know what Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is and for those that don’t know, the blogs below that were written by my fellow students all give a ...
Unraveling Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson’s disease is defined as “a disorder of the brain that leads to shaking (tremors) and difficulty with walking, movement, and coordination.”1 It typical...
Where does Lou Gehrig's Disease come from?
This week we explored the pathways leading to neuron cell death which can lead to various diseases including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Amyot...