Mitosis is the process of division that produces two daughter cells that are genetically identical to each other and the parent cell. Cancer is an uncontrolled proliferation of cells dividing. Mitosis ensures that every cell in an organism carries the same chromosomes. Mitosis is how our bodie...

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, my colleagues and I have called you in at such short notice because we need to discuss a patient who was brought to our attention earlier this week. The patient presented with rapidly progressing lymphadenopathy, subsequent examination lymph nodes congested with...

Skin Cancer Of all different kinds of cancer, skin cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States. Skin cancer is a disease which cancer cells are found on the outer layers of the skin. Your skin protects the body from heat, infection, light, injury and infection...

Skin cancer is a disease in which cancer, or malignant, cells are found in the outer layers of your skin. Your skin protects your body against heat, light, infection, and injury. It also stores water, fat, and vitamin D. Your skin consists of an outer layer called the epidermis, a...

Cancer is a very common killer disease known today around the world. Cancer is known as one of the most popular diseases, which have grown but because of the new development in medicine there are less deaths. More people are being found with this disease but they're not dying because of the dev...

Tobacco products kill more than 400,000 people in the United States a year. That is more than the number deaths from homicides, fires, AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, suicides, and illegal drugs put together. It is by far the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. Action should ...

About 1 and 8 women will develop breast cancer at some time in her life. This ratio represents a woman's lifetime risk. Thus, not until the age of 80 does a woman's risk of breast cancer rise to 1 in 8. About 180,00 women a year are diagnosed with breast cancer and about 44,000 will d...

Cell reproduction is the leading cause of growth and developement in our bodies. This reproduction is caused by the cell cycle, which is defined as the life of a cell from its origin in the division of its parent cell until its own division into two. Genetic continuity, cytokinesis regula...

The children of today are becoming more obese, for the fact that they are obtaining laziness. They are spending more time in front of the television than they are getting their daily exercise. Their growing bodies need the practice to lose baby fat before it gets to be a severe problem. The growth o...

Technology and Television: Child Obesity The children of today are becoming more obese, for the fact that they are obtaining laziness. They are spending more time in front of the television then they are getting their daily exercise. Their growing bodies need exercise to lose baby fat before...

Technology and Television: Child Obesity The children of today are becoming more obese, for the fact that they are obtaining laziness. They are spending more time in front of the television then they are getting their daily exercise. Their growing bodies need exercise to lose baby fat befor...

Many means are used by organic farmers to control pests and raise soil fertility without the harmful effects of pesticides. The most popular and well-used include crop rotation, timed plantings, natural sprays, controlled pH of soil and composting. When an organic farmer uses crop rotation, part...

The sun, its what keeps the world alive, but kills it at the same time. Earth is protected from UV light and harmful radiation by the ozone layer, which is depleting at an alarming rate. This depletion has allowed more dangerous UV-B radiation to reach the Earth's surface. Although the ...

Radioisotopes are artificially made, unstable elements that release radiation as they break down. Radioisotopes in medicine, also called nuclear medicine, is a form of medicine that uses radiation to get information on the function of organs. It is a fairly new form of medicine that was developed in...

With continual advances in health, science, and technology, all aspects of a person's life are greatly improved. Once devastating diseases are now better understood and sometimes even treatable. With transportation advances, people easily hop on a jet and soar across the world in a matter of hours....

Rectal Cancer is a disease where cancer cells are found in the tissues of the rectum. It is a highly treatable cancer if localized. The rectum is the last eight to ten inches of the large intestine in the digestive system, and has two muscle mechanisms involved in expelling fecal matters, the inte...

Imagine the air that you and your children breathe is being polluted with hundreds of chemicals and toxic substances, but if you smoke you don't have to imagine. With each cigarette you smoke you are polluting your lungs and the air around you with over four thousand chemical compounds and over...

Steroids and Sports Talent is shown when an athlete succeeds, on the field, in the water, on the track, winning is on the players mind. This can be such a big deal that athletes turn to steroid. Athletes that take steroids are running a big risk not only of getting caught but they are playing wi...

The Long Term Effects of Marijuana Marijuana is a drug that divides people. Some people claim it as the wonder drug of the '90s, capable of relieving the symptoms of many serious illnesses. Others curse the day the cannabis plant was ever discovered. From pain relief to stimulating the appetit...

Approximately 30,000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral cancer every year and of those 30,000 people nearly half of them will die within the next five years. Oral cancer is a very deadly disease that most people know very little about. The death rate associated with oral cancer is particularly ...

SKIN CANCER Skin Cancer is a malignancy in the skin and is the most common of all cancers. There are three types of major skin cancers, which are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Basal cell carcinoma, the most common type, develops in the basal, or bottom, layer of ...

SKIN CANCER Skin Cancer is a malignancy in the skin and is the most common of all cancers. There are three types of major skin cancers, which are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Basal cell carcinoma, the most common type, develops in the basal, or bottom, layer of ...

Effects of smoking If you don't know by now that smoking causes cancer you may have been hiding under a rock for the past twenty years. The 1982 Surgeon General's Report stated "Cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer mortality in the United States." (American Cancer Society) Tob...

Cloning Will Help Us in the Long Run. One issue that has come up within the past five years is the issue of human cloning. This issue has made many people quarrel about if it is morally right or not. One argument against human cloning that many people are looking into now, is whether cloning is...

Part of our American culture is based on food and the way people treat themselves biologically by deciding what is acceptable to eat. Unfortunately a great portion of our society does not carefully think about the biological effects of certain foods. We live in an era of fad diets and health cons...