January 7, 2015 Medical Science
Rickets is a disease directly related to loss of Calcium that affects the bones in the body that results in weakening of the bones. This disease is usually hereditary but can be treated with Calcium with the help of Vitamin…
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Is the Yellowstone super volcano a silent ticking time bomb? Many believe it is. This mega volcano is said to erupt approximately every 600,00 years, so what is there to worry about? Plenty, it has already been about 640,000 years…
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Beautiful Yellowstone’s active geo-thermal features make it like no other place on earth. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law a bill which made the area of Yellowstone the nations first national park. Scientists believed that…
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January 7, 2015 Medical Science
Vaccines protect the body against diseases in one of three ways, weakened live organisms, killed organisms or by a toxoid method. The first method, with live viruses ensure against the disease, but the live organism will have been weakened to…
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RNA is the little known cousin of DNA. Standing for Ribonucleic Acid, RNA is mainly different from DNA in the sugar (ribose) that makes up its backbone. DNA is famous for being the code for life, but in fact it…
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January 7, 2015 Medical Science
Hypoxemia is low blood oxygen content. It is usually defined as a hemoglobin oxygen saturation of under 90% or an oxygen partial pressure of under 60 mmHg. There are five different causes of hypoxemia that will be discussed below. 1….
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January 7, 2015 Medical Science
A brain hemorrhage, also known as cerebral hemorrhage, is bleeding within the brain due to damaged blood vessels leaking blood into the surrounding tissue. A bleed can occur between the brain and membrane surrounding it, called a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or…
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The Care and Feeding of Blowout Preventers Beginning in April, 2010, the news was filled with the unfamiliar terminology of deep-water drilling. We learned about risers, drilling mud, semi-submersible drill ships, and blowout preventers. One already familiar phrase was “oil…
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Almost everywhere that drillers find crude oil, they find it under a pocket of gas. Still more gas is dissolved in the oil. When drillers go deep, the gas may be under pressure that causes it to shoot to the…
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR ) is a technique that utilizes the enzyme DNA polymerase for making copies of a gene, gene fragment, or specific DNA or RNA sequence. DNA polymerase is the enzyme that catalyzes replication and repair of DNA….
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