Welcome to the blog of team Scrubs: Alexandra and Amy.
Movie of the Day:
Today we started off the day by finishing up our rare disease presentation. We researched and presented Zika virus as well as its cause of microcephaly. Other groups presented diseases such as Progeria (see the movie of the day).
Go check out our presentation below!
Also check out our research and notes!
After the presentations, we finished up the second documentary about cancer. We learned more about the history of cancer treatments, and it was fascinating. Advances in combination chemotherapy, as well as progress in curing childhood leukemia, were the main topics for the day.
Right before we went to lunch, we tested to see if Sydney and Cindy’s enzymes were actually successfully genetically modified or not.
After lunch, we did the same procedure as we did with the genetic transformations on Day 3. Here are our results:
These results show that the gene was there, therefore, the experiment was successful:)