Essays on Biology

The Franco-Papal Alliance, from my understanding, began the moment Pepin the Short was crowned King of the Franks following Pope Zachary’s approval that he should be considered king. Pepin was mayor of the palace, a position which held all the power over the Frankish nations,…

Looking back on the lives of children 50 years ago versus today, the difference between the two are significantly shown. Specifically within girlhood. Girls before did not have media, or any other forms of technology to dictate how they were supposed to look, or how…

Henrietta Lacks “HeLa cells” is whom I call the mother of Science, heroine of medicine, and the mother of life. She was a young woman in her thirties when she was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with an incurable cancer of the cervix in…

Joshua Lederberg was born in New Jersey in 1925. His parents were recent immigrants from Israel and soon after his birth moved to Washington Heights in New York City. When he graduated high school, from Stuyvesant High school, he sought to continue his education. In…

The book Science, Evolution, and Religion: A Debate about Atheism and Theism, presents an attentive and controversy between two talented and cordial philosophers. Michael Peterson was a theist, whereas Michael Ruse was an atheist. Both philosophers were able to exchange each other’s ideas with simplicity…

For centuries, Native Americans have cultivated White Sage, a member of the four sacred plants including: tobacco, red cedar, and sweet grass, and traditionally used it medicinally. The name Salvia is derived from the Latin salvus (safe) or, in terms of health, salvus (well-being). In…

Cell culturing is possibly the most vastly used technique in laboratories and research centres worldwide. With increasingly accurate environments of simple monocultures or complex polycultures being established, advancements within medical research can be made. Mammalian cell culture is enabling progress in areas such as cancer…

In recent years we have seen an increased prevalence in zoonotic parasitic infections. This is likely due to a number of factors, some of which are related to a shift in the way humans interact with animals. There are also however, other factors, not so…

It may seem normal to us today, but to consider that all human beings have a series of inviolable rights is something relatively new. Until not so long ago, slavery was still allowed and enjoyed good social acceptance, and racist theories are used as an…

In the Unified States, about 1 million ladies have PID every year. Around 1 out of 8 sexually dynamic young ladies will have PID before age 20. Pelvic fiery ailment (PID) is a contamination of the female conceptive organs. It’s more often than not happens…