You have been discussing your new “molecular prowess” and people have noticed. You have been given the opportunity to propose a molecular assay and develop a molecular laboratory. This will require that you write a proposal to administration. This proposal must include your assay design and equipment list. You must […]
Within our communities there is an increasing number of families whose beliefs forbid strange men from touching their women. A small community hospital has male and female nurses on the labor and delivery unit. Because of illness, the unit is short staffed with two male nurses on shift and there […]
Why is it good to be wrong in the scientific sense? We’ll find the answer to that question through what’s called the scientific method. Use the information learned from the website and from the assigned reading to describe a real-life situation in which you applied the scientific method to solve […]
1. The disease beriberi, which results from a dietary deficiency of vitamin B1 (Thiamine) is characterized by neurological and cardiac symptoms, as well as increased levels of pyruvate and alpha- ketoglutarate in the blood. How does a deficiency of thiamine account for the increased levels of pyruvate and alpha- ketoglutarate? […]