For my STEAM project, I decided to compare cancer and its unrelenting growth to the concept of love and its infinite ability to grow. In its simplest form, mitosis is a process that allows cells to reproduce and replace damaged or dead cells. Without it, every living organism would cease …
My topic is about how MS affects the body. It affects the central nervous system ( the brain and the spinal cord) which affects the rest of the body. I also compared and contrast the PNS and CNS. MS affects many systems of the body including the digestive, immune, skeletal, …
For my project I compared and contrasted this different sensory cells and also compared them to the sensory cells we have within our teeth.
This project focuses on the NMDA neuroreceptor and demonstrated hypofunction in correlation with detectable psychosis.
For my STEAM project, I did Osgood-Schlatter Disease. OSD is a disease that stems from the overuse of the patellar tendon and causes a protruding section of bone at the tibial tuberosity. This impacts approximately 20% of physically active adolescents who are skeletally immature and the effects usually subside within …
My STEAM project shows the symptoms that can be experienced due to sensory nerve damage from alcohol related peripheral neuropathy. My dad has alcohol related peripheral neuropathy. Without feeling it ourselves, my family and I have always struggled to understand exactly how the pain feels to him. He described his …
I decided to do a comic on what occurs on the cellular level during Frostbite. My media is a comic on a human cell and a wood frog cell and what happens with them during freezing temperatures. I made mine a tragic love story, much like Romeo and Juliet. Frostbite
For my STEAM project I decided to do Scleroderma. Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by the tightening and hardening of the skin and underlying connective tissues. This is caused by the overproduction of collagen in the connective tissues. For the art portion of this project, I used construction paper …
My STEAM project is a comic styled book that I’ve written and illustrated. This comic highlights and personifies one of the many jobs of a motor protein called kinesin and how it works in order to support brain function more specifically, how it helps neurons carry action potentials. This little …