Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency
It is important to keep an eye out for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency. The lack of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin can lead to long lasting lung damage. This art project illustrates how this deficiency affects alveoli. This project is also a memorial for my grandmother who passed away from lung complications from this …
Psoriasis: When Your Body’s Immune System Fights You
For my project I wrote about psoriasis. Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation, along with dry scales of skin. Psoriasis is due to an error with T cells. Psoriasis can also have innate or adaptive immunity in which depends on the abundance of neutrophils and that all affects …
Prions and BSE
This piece is about prions and their effects. Prions are pathogens, that are formed from proteins, that are misfolded. Prions can be found from human or animal and it causes neurogenerative diseases. This project is more specifically about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its effect to cow. You can see, that cow …
A New Carcosa: A Short History
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-qu-jRmXPAhc3_eHSVrAayrrepeTJ-1o/view?usp=sharing Abstract. A New Carcosa: A Short History is my attempt to not only create the Dungeons & Dragons supplement of the same name but reframe it in a better image. Like a lot of things from the Cold War, I do not think the original aged well. I have …
Tetralogy of Fallot
For my STEAM project, I will be talking about a rare congenital heart condition known as Tetralogy of Fallot (“fuh-loh”). The objectives I’ll be covering are “know the path of blood through the heart and circulatory system” and “explain the structure and function of the heart”. I chose this topic …
Survival Board Game
For my STEAM project, I decided to create a board game that reflects some of the ways different animals survive in nature. Each animal has different immunities to certain challenges in the game that coincide with some of their survival adaptations in real life. The goal of the game is …
Crochet Development of Astrocytoma (A 4 Panel Tragedy)
This is a culminative picture of my project over the last 2 semesters, I have some more detailed and labelled pictures below. This is the final image of developed Astrocytoma. In this image the branches have become long, thin, and tangled with one another. There is also evidence of the …
Hemophilia Vessels
My project is about hemophilia, which is a disease where an individual doesn’t have all the right clotting factors so they cannot form blood clots quickly or at all. I created two models, one which shows an individual’s vessel that formed a blood clot. It shows platelets, clotting factors, and …