Engineering a Cure/ Whitney Teague

Melanoma- any of several types of skin tumors characterized by the malignant growth of melanocytes.
Isolate- Medicine/Medical. to keep (an infected person) from contact with noninfected persons; quarantine.

Immunologist- a medical scientist who specializes in immunogly.

SUMMARY
When putting a gene into normal immune cells, isolated from melanoma patients, scientist turned the cells into cancer fighters. To do this, researchers isolate a patient's most aggressive tumor T cells and multiply them in the lab. Doctors destroy the patient's remaining T cells and replace them with the anticancer versions. If all goes well, these cells home in on tumors and kill them. Adoptive cell transfer isn't a viable treatment for the majority of people with cancer, explains Steven A. Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. Only half of melanoma patients seem to have these specialized tumor-killing T cells, and the cells that target other types of cancers such as breast, lung, and liver cancer are "very difficult to find" in people with those diseases.

Fossil- A remnant or trace of an organism of a past geologic age, such as a skeleton or leaf imprint, embedded and preserved in the earth's crust.
Mammalian- an animal of the class Mammalia; mammal.
Reptilian- belonging or pertaining to the Reptilia.

Scientists believe that certain animals could be related do to a resemblance to the ear bones. Scientists haven't quite figured out what it is but plan to figure it out.

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Vocabulary:
Appropriate- suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.:
Assembled- to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
Traditional- handed down by tradition.

Summary:
This story talks about the different types of hats worn for different seasons.
For instance, felt hats are worn in the fall and winter the more fur, the warmer it is, the higher the count of x's the better grade of the hat. Straw hats are worn on warmer days, the straw reflects heat. I think this story is interesting, I didn't know that people wore hats for certain seasons, I thought it was just a fashion thing.

The first few minutes after death...

VOCABULARY-
Expectation- The act or state of expecting: to wait in expectation.
Recruit-To enroll or list.
Consciousness- The state of being conscious, or aware.

This story is about near death experiances. How being near death is another state of consciousness. They are doing a research on the near death experiances, while patients are on cardiac arrest. While patients are on cardiac arrest, the monitor their heartbeat, and breathing rate. After patients are off cardiac arrest, they have the choice to continue to be tested.

http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2008/jan/scout2/

Vocabulary-
1. Hazardous- Full of risk.
2. Immediately- Without lapse of time.
3. Regulation- A law or rule.

Summary
This story is about before 1949, how when starting a bout, that meant it began going immediately. It was very HAZARDOUS. They then began putting in a neutral, forward, and reverse, this made things a lot safer.

Thoughts
I think that its a very good thing that we have a N, F, and R. This makes it to where we have total control of our boats and vehicles. Without having this, what would we do? A lot more people would die from fatal injury.