In my opinion of the most important factors of being a scientist or a doctor is having your audience or your patients trust. This way they won't question what you're doing or your capability to accomplish something. Definitely my point of view has changed after reading chapter one of Rigor Mortis by Richard Harris. What... Continue Reading →
In chapter 4, Mislead By Mice I learned many important concepts when it come to treating, experimenting, testing with mice. Although they're not very accurate when it comes to see how it affect a human after being tested on a mice, scientist still continued this method. Although some scientists have expressed uncertainty and recognized the... Continue Reading →
Chapter five of Rigor Mortis talks about breast cancer and in vitro fertilization, and how some cells have been or could be contaminated and /or mislabeled. The information which surprised me the most about this chapter was the fact that a form of breast cancer cells labeled MDA-MB-435 actually was not breast cancer, but melanoma cancer;... Continue Reading →
Hi! My name is Michelle G, I chose the biomedical pathway because the medicine and science field has aways captured my attention. There is never ending adventure you can find out one thing but then it leads you to another and you end up discovering something mind blowing and it feels like a chain, you... Continue Reading →
At the beginning of this chapter Richard harris starts off the chapter strong saying what he thinks " Each year about a million biomedical studies are published in the scientific literature. And many of them are simply wrong." (Pg 7) When I read that one sentence I was instantly hooked on because I knew this... Continue Reading →
At the beginning of chapter 3 Richard harris talks about a deadly disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS for short. He continues on and talks about the ice bucket challenge that went viral in 2014. Many people including some of my friends participated in this challenge. I never really knew why it was done... Continue Reading →
While reading chapter 9, "The Challenge of Precision Medicine", from the book Rigor Mortis, I was very astonished with everything that was occurring in the crisis with biomedical research. Medicine and cures are still not found due to scientists lack of partnership. Each give their own opinions instead of collaborating to put all opinions and... Continue Reading →
After reading chapter 8 from the book Rigor Mortis, I learned that scientists have been doing this to their work for many years. Richard Harris explains how scientists hurry to publish their work just to try to be the first one and by doing that they need to cut corners on their work and the... Continue Reading →
Chapter 8 of the book Rigor Mortis is titled, “A Broken Culture.” Nothing more adequately sums up the message of this book than this title, as the issue behind the stiffness in biomedicine is entirely due to researcher’s job structure and requirements. What has become of the culture of biomedical research is slowing down progress and... Continue Reading →
Chapter seven is dedicated to the problems with transparency in biomedical research and how the contribute to irreproducibility. It starts with Brian Nosek a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who aims to reduce irreproducibility problems by having more transparency, especially with keeping track of overreaching ideas of studies. According to Nosek, the main... Continue Reading →
StarPathDesign 