BP #4 - Going Green

- Thinking about food sustainability it was not a big issue for me when i shop for food. However, as i learned from this topic "Going Green," i begin concerning about food sustainability.


- Here is i can usually do for reducing carbon footprint. I am trying no to use disposable products, such as a plastic razor, plastic spoons, paper plates, and wooden chopsticks. Also I bring my own shopping bag when i go to market. So that I do barely use the disposable products.


- Unfortunately, i have no chance to access to stores with organic locally grown food.

- In case of international students, like me, who live in industrialized countries , such as New York, getting organic and nutritious food has been hard because of on a tight budget. These fresh food definitely high price. Otherwise, I might not be interested before my professor told us about "Food Coop" which I can get fresh food at lowest-price.
From that, I have been thinking what food I really want for health and the earth environment.

BP #3 - Mini Research:Medical research in the 1940s / 1950s

"An immortalized mouse cell line had been developed in 1940, but no continuous human cell line existed: until HeLa." HeLa cell which is immortal cell used in scientific research is probably one of the most important tools for research and medicine since 20th century. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line was derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February, 1951 from Henrietta Lacks who was a patient and died of her cancer on October, 1951. HeLa cells have helped us to survive from kind of illness and diseases, have been used to test chemotherapy.(Chin, Corinne. - Science in the Early 20th Century)(http://www.blog.onebooknu.org/2011/11/science-in-the-early-20th-century/)

 "Fifty years after Henrietta Lacks died of aggressive glandular cervical cancer, the first cell line - HeLa cell line - is the workhorse of laboratories everywhere. It helped to produce drugs for numerous diseases, including poliomyelitis, Parkinson's, leukemias. But they are so outrageously robust that they contaminated hundred of other cell lines, as far away as Russia. For decades, biologists worked with contaminated cell lines and today, the problem is not yet solved. But the story of HeLa cells is also a moving reflection of racial and ethical issues in medicine in the late half-twentieth century in the USA."(by Gilgenkrantz S. - Requiem for Henrietta.)(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20510154)

As HeLa cell was found, the medical circles have been developing till today. Her cells exposed scientists to endless toxins, radiation and inflections and the scientists bombarded her cells with drugs, hoping to find one that would kill malignant cells without destroying normal ones. They studied immune suppression and cancer growth by injecting HeLa cells into immune-compromised rats, which developed malignant tumors much like Henrietta's. If the cells died in the process, it didn't matter - scientists could just go back to their eternally growing HeLa stock and start over again. (Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)

WORK CITED

Chin, Corinne. "Science in the early 20th Century."3 Nov.(2011).

         Web. 10 Jan. 2012.

S. Gilgenkrantz. "Requiem for Henrietta." 26 May.(2010)

         Web. 10 Jan. 2012.

Skloot, Rebecca. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. 2010."

BP #2 - Taking Advatage

Henrietta Lacks's family felt so sorrowful about she passed away. And the family were really angry with doctors and scientists when the family heard HeLa's immortal cells were taken without HeLa's and her family's permission, eventhought her cells were used as medical research development.






In this time when someone took advantage of me was about a month ago. One of my friends bought a HP touchpad and he wanted the device as a multy booting device. However he did not know how to customize it. About a half hour he searched about doing that he gave up. He just passed me the device. He wanted me to set the the program. However, even for me, I did not know ,too. I had no information about it. But I decided to do it for my friend. About five hours focused on it, maybe that was 4:30 am,I finally set he program into the device. Researches, YouTube videos, and other informations from the website were helped me. I was so proud of myself doing that work.

Self introduction!

Hi guys, my name is ilwoong Seo, from South Korea.
I have been in N.Y about 3years and a half and I live in Elmhurst with two friends.

My major is Liberal Arts and i have been thingking about transfer to kind of business major.

Nice to meet you-!