After our lab on Tuesday where we used red-cabbage paper as indicator of pH, I was interested in learning more about anthocyanins, or the chemical that makes the paper turn blue or pink in the presence of bases or acids. … Continue reading
In violin playing, when a player plays a harmonic, (which involves lightly placing the finger on the string, instead of applying normal, complete pressure), the note that the instrument produces is four, two, or one octave higher, or is the … Continue reading
I found the article ‘From Prion Diseases to Prion-Like Propagation Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases’ quite difficult to understand, as I do not have any kind of scientific background to assimilate it. While the movies were helpful in giving a clearer … Continue reading
Chemistry poem from observing colour and water merging and diffusing… FD&C ALLURA RED 40 So thought H20 after a long time in the still Life lately was lonely, everything’s so tranquil He missed the moments that could be shared The … Continue reading
This week’s readings were really interesting. However, I felt that in order to understand more about prions and how these diseases worked, I needed to look up more details online. A common problem that I found by researching prions is the … Continue reading
I was really interested by Tuesday’s talk and about how the brain and music interconnect. It is fascinating to me that two seemingly completely different things are in fact directly related to each other. For instance, if our brain does … Continue reading
The article From Prion Disease to Prion-Like Propogation Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases clearly set out some of the types of prion disease (scrapie and bovine spongine encephalopathy), discovery of prions, the protein only hypothesis. But the part of the article … Continue reading
Researching prions and their diseased counterparts could be extremely beneficial to the health of not only humans, but all living things. Take for example Mad Cow disease. If one was able to control how PrPc is structured and maintain that … Continue reading
The article, “From Prion Diseases to Prion-Like Propagation Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases,” was fascinating to read. From what I can gather from the videos and the article, prion is a fatal neurological disease of the brain. Transmission of the disease … Continue reading
First, I am very sorry to have missed classes. The lectures and conversation are very exciting to read about. My classmates have done exceptionally well reiterating the precipis of the article and, though it was scientifically laden, seem to understand … Continue reading