Maloney et al. (1999) describes microchimerism as the accommodation of genetically different cells in one's body. A study that Nelson et al. (1998) preformed shows that women that have been pregnant may have fetal cells from past pregnancies circulating in their bloodstreams. Not just mothers have a chance of having microchimerism but everyone does as well due to the chance of maternal cells living in bodies acquired while in the uterus. This is especially so with infants with immunodeficiency disorders (Maloney et al. 1999). A study by Evan et al. (1999) in 68 mothers’ of sons was checked for male DNA (Y-chromosome) in blood. Forty-eight were considered healthy and 20 were women with scleroderma (a connective tissue disease that is characterized by the immune system attacking different connective tissues). Out of the 48 thirty-three percent (16 of 48) had male DNA found. Sixty percent (12 of 20) of women with scleroderma had male DNA. This shows a small trend of women with scleroma having a higher likely hood of having chimerism. Renne et al. (2004) did a study on women's thyroids and microchimerism. They found that male DNA was found in 23 of their sample of 49 women which was more frequent with women that had thyroid autoimmune disease.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Thanksgiving
The joys of Thanksgiving break are numerous. First of all lets just start with the word break. A break from the school work a break from college life is just nice. I worry about school work a lot and I tend to stressed out by all of it. I love going home and seeing all my family merely from the standpoint I do not have to think about all the school work I need to get done. It is just so relaxing to go home and not worry, or think. I can just lay on the couch catch on my television time or watch a movie and best yet take a leisure two hour nap. Its just great.
In addition to the peacefulness all it all, I get to see my sister and brother and all my other family members that I really do not get to see all that often. I was able to talk to my aunt, uncle, both grandmothers, father, mother, and my cousins. It was like old times again when my immediate family and I played an old fashion game of monopoly. Just like normal my brother and I were trying screw other people other in our trades to win the game and occasionally pull a fast one on somebody it was just like old times. I miss being around my siblings every night but when we get back together it always seems like no matter how old we get the family dynamic stays the same and thats what I am giving thanks for this fall no matter how much everything seems to change some things will always remain the same.
In addition to the peacefulness all it all, I get to see my sister and brother and all my other family members that I really do not get to see all that often. I was able to talk to my aunt, uncle, both grandmothers, father, mother, and my cousins. It was like old times again when my immediate family and I played an old fashion game of monopoly. Just like normal my brother and I were trying screw other people other in our trades to win the game and occasionally pull a fast one on somebody it was just like old times. I miss being around my siblings every night but when we get back together it always seems like no matter how old we get the family dynamic stays the same and thats what I am giving thanks for this fall no matter how much everything seems to change some things will always remain the same.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
State of Fear
Michael Crichton really dug down deep into the issue of global warming when he decided to write the book state of fear. He has several pages of acknowlegdements and also of references used in the book. He even compiled graphs using the data from scientists around the globe. He did not just listen to the scientists conclusion he looked at the data and made his own conclusions like any well educated man should.
As I read through his exciting tale of a well known organizations supporting eco-terrorists all in the name to send a message and the few good guys trying to stop them I picked up a farely decent amount of knowledge. I learned about ideas that I could have never have fathomed on my own. Like the urban heating effect an idea that seems so simple but I would never have thought of it, let alone try to make calculations on how this should change our temperature readings.
Love how this information was summed up in a book that was so interesting to read... I actually learned information about global warming and the side that usually does not get broadcast in the news or that many magazines because with it it holds a stigma of those that don't believe in global warming don't care about the environment. That really cannot be further from the truth just because I do not believe in the death penalty does not mean I don't believe criminals shouldn't get punished.
I have learned a lot about what I think about the issue of global warming and the main thing I learned is I don't know enough about it to preach to anyone my opinions on it and that other people do not know enough either and that further research is very necessary to completely understand this issue.
As I read through his exciting tale of a well known organizations supporting eco-terrorists all in the name to send a message and the few good guys trying to stop them I picked up a farely decent amount of knowledge. I learned about ideas that I could have never have fathomed on my own. Like the urban heating effect an idea that seems so simple but I would never have thought of it, let alone try to make calculations on how this should change our temperature readings.
Love how this information was summed up in a book that was so interesting to read... I actually learned information about global warming and the side that usually does not get broadcast in the news or that many magazines because with it it holds a stigma of those that don't believe in global warming don't care about the environment. That really cannot be further from the truth just because I do not believe in the death penalty does not mean I don't believe criminals shouldn't get punished.
I have learned a lot about what I think about the issue of global warming and the main thing I learned is I don't know enough about it to preach to anyone my opinions on it and that other people do not know enough either and that further research is very necessary to completely understand this issue.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Tuesday Morning
Oh how I hate Tuesday mornings that always seem to come to early. I set my alarm for 7:30 and I always hit the dismiss button and freak out when I see that the time is 7:55 and I have five minutes to get dressed and get to class. It is just so difficult since I have been at college to get up. I hate waking up in the morning. I have gotten used to getting up at 8:45 for Monday, Wednesday,and Friday and ten at the earliest all the other days.
I get up with my bed head grab an apple for the road and to listen to Dr. Hu I go. The only thing that keeps me awake on Tuesday mornings are her hillarious accent and how stereotypical she is. She does not ever say words with -ing in them even when they are grammatically correct. She also squint to see things up close and it is so funny. I do not mean to laugh I try not to but one time she kept saying the formuler instead of formula and I just could not control myself. I mean she is a great lab instructor but some of the stuff she does leaves me unable to control myself.
After I finish up lab I usually attend the konditterie for a delicious raspberry parfait that I devour in about point 2. Then off to the library I go for a day filled with the quiet peacefulness studying alone provides.
I get up with my bed head grab an apple for the road and to listen to Dr. Hu I go. The only thing that keeps me awake on Tuesday mornings are her hillarious accent and how stereotypical she is. She does not ever say words with -ing in them even when they are grammatically correct. She also squint to see things up close and it is so funny. I do not mean to laugh I try not to but one time she kept saying the formuler instead of formula and I just could not control myself. I mean she is a great lab instructor but some of the stuff she does leaves me unable to control myself.
After I finish up lab I usually attend the konditterie for a delicious raspberry parfait that I devour in about point 2. Then off to the library I go for a day filled with the quiet peacefulness studying alone provides.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
the wonders of the library
The library has many functions. It has the obvious function of being a holder of knowledge. In the old way of thinking people come here and pick books off the shelf maybe blow the dust off of them and sit down to read for hours on end. It is meant to be a quiet place to do scholarly research and to do personal research.
Unlike mos people I don't always use the library this way. For me the library is a place to get away in its own right of getting away. I enjoy the quiet which is very different from my dorm with a rule stateing the beat has to stay bumping so their is loud music blasting all day essencially. While here I study or pretend to study with others in study rooms and usually I am unpreductive because when I study with others I see it as social hour.
I also use the library as a hallway to stay out of the bitter cold. Speaking of the weather it snowed today. Oh the joys of winter maybe tomorrow the wind chill will be below 0 degrees that would be just great... but I digress. The library has become my home almost I spend the majority of my time there. The only time I am not here is when it is closed or when I am sleepy. I have a hard time understanding why I didn't spend all my time in high school here it is a pretty happening place.
In review during college I have come to love the library even though early in life I saw it as a bland boring place.
Unlike mos people I don't always use the library this way. For me the library is a place to get away in its own right of getting away. I enjoy the quiet which is very different from my dorm with a rule stateing the beat has to stay bumping so their is loud music blasting all day essencially. While here I study or pretend to study with others in study rooms and usually I am unpreductive because when I study with others I see it as social hour.
I also use the library as a hallway to stay out of the bitter cold. Speaking of the weather it snowed today. Oh the joys of winter maybe tomorrow the wind chill will be below 0 degrees that would be just great... but I digress. The library has become my home almost I spend the majority of my time there. The only time I am not here is when it is closed or when I am sleepy. I have a hard time understanding why I didn't spend all my time in high school here it is a pretty happening place.
In review during college I have come to love the library even though early in life I saw it as a bland boring place.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Research team plus digression
My brother is currently doing a research project for his senior level biology course. This is mandatory for all biology majors. I hear my brother complaining all the time about how lazy and/or dumb his partners are. That is why I have started my hunt at an early time. I already have found one hard working smart individual that I know will weather the coarse of being a biology major. I have also become friends a brilliant asian man. He is quite possibly the smartest person I know and he is in pre-med just like I. All I need to do is scope one other person of great skill and determination that will work hard to get that desired grade/get it with superior intellect.
I have also acquired some study bodies that will help keep me on the right path. It sometimes is lonely being a biology major in pre-med. There is just so much work that is involved in this. With my biology friends I know I can do it. Because you really do need friends on this lonely place called earth. At first I tried coupled up to a cold hard text book alone. I was farely efficient at times but found that my stress was severly lowered when I was around others in the same boat. I also could bounce ideas off them and ask for help when I wasn't completely understanding the material. I now realize college is best kept social and solidarity is not the best path on this road.
I have also acquired some study bodies that will help keep me on the right path. It sometimes is lonely being a biology major in pre-med. There is just so much work that is involved in this. With my biology friends I know I can do it. Because you really do need friends on this lonely place called earth. At first I tried coupled up to a cold hard text book alone. I was farely efficient at times but found that my stress was severly lowered when I was around others in the same boat. I also could bounce ideas off them and ask for help when I wasn't completely understanding the material. I now realize college is best kept social and solidarity is not the best path on this road.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Social networking
I first heard of social networking in 8th grade. A thing called myspace was all the rave and seemingly eveyone had one... except me. People from my class would say something that wasn't funny at all and everyone would laugh according to me no reason I just didn't understand what it meant to post something on a wall. What is posting? What on earth is a status update? I finally got one late that school year. I tried to take part but unfortunatly I was not truely living in the 21st century. My family had dial-up internet and people would post videos and music on there walls. These videos will start to download automatically and completely freeze my internet. So my love for myspace didn't really develop as severly as other peoples.
The next big thing that consequently myspace a joke, was facebook. It was basically the same concept but I don't know why it just seemed better than all the other networking sites of the time. People quickly starting using facebook jargon and I as well as the rest jumped onboard farely quick. Everyone quickly knew what was going on in people's lifes very quickly. You could find out almost instaneously when someone was in or out of a relationship. The saying of is it facebook official was frequently used? This also lead you to be able to know everything you could ever want to know off facebook, quite possibly way more. Facebook was/still is used as a weapon people poke fun at each other all the time and sometimes in can be quite hurtful. There is also a thing called twitter that people post everything from what they are eating to inside jokes. This is basically a simpler social network that just has status updates or tweets if you will.
Despite all these social mediums I still find face to face interaction is my favorite. Yeah, now that we have social networks it is easier to stay in touch with your all your old friends that may be hours away. There will always be a need to have friends that you are close to close in distance and that is why friendships from a far maintained through social networks will never be enough.
The next big thing that consequently myspace a joke, was facebook. It was basically the same concept but I don't know why it just seemed better than all the other networking sites of the time. People quickly starting using facebook jargon and I as well as the rest jumped onboard farely quick. Everyone quickly knew what was going on in people's lifes very quickly. You could find out almost instaneously when someone was in or out of a relationship. The saying of is it facebook official was frequently used? This also lead you to be able to know everything you could ever want to know off facebook, quite possibly way more. Facebook was/still is used as a weapon people poke fun at each other all the time and sometimes in can be quite hurtful. There is also a thing called twitter that people post everything from what they are eating to inside jokes. This is basically a simpler social network that just has status updates or tweets if you will.
Despite all these social mediums I still find face to face interaction is my favorite. Yeah, now that we have social networks it is easier to stay in touch with your all your old friends that may be hours away. There will always be a need to have friends that you are close to close in distance and that is why friendships from a far maintained through social networks will never be enough.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
My childhood
I was born on December 10, 1992. I was born in Mercy hopital and raised in Des Moines. I went to Des Moines Christian, a private school. My parents never wanted me to go to the public schools in the inner city if you will but they didn't know where to move untill I graduated from kindergartin. I two older siblings that also went there. My brother, Steven was in fourth grade when we finally did move down to a town called Winterset. We grew to like it there. Everyone said hi to each other and waved as they drove by you on the gravel roads. Out in the country my siblings and I had to improve our imagination since all of our we didn't have all our friends living right across the street from each other. This is one reason I believe that my siblings and I are very close. We played together every single day during the summer and every night during the school week. For the first couple years I shared a room with my brother. This was later converte to an office so my mom could work from home.The great things about having a stay at home when I was young was always having someone to take care of me and to play with. Unfortunatly, as I grew up there was always someone there that thought she needed to take care of me and play with me.
When I think back on my childhood I realize how much my parents loved my siblings and I. We didn't realize it at the time but back in Des Moines there was a lot of bad influences. Des Moines public schools can be rough. It is easy to become lost in the shuffle with all those other kids in your class. My parents moved so we can grow up it a better environment even though all of there friends were back up in Des Moines too. My father even to this day has a longer drive to get to work but he made a sacrifice to allow us to have a better childhood and I am thankful for that everyday.
When I think back on my childhood I realize how much my parents loved my siblings and I. We didn't realize it at the time but back in Des Moines there was a lot of bad influences. Des Moines public schools can be rough. It is easy to become lost in the shuffle with all those other kids in your class. My parents moved so we can grow up it a better environment even though all of there friends were back up in Des Moines too. My father even to this day has a longer drive to get to work but he made a sacrifice to allow us to have a better childhood and I am thankful for that everyday.
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