Assignment 9: Reflection

How does the book or article fit into your potential research? What does it add to your paper or ideas?

It discusses the future of pharmacology and producing more effective medicine. Therefore, it falls into the field I am currently interning in and the field that I would like to work in.

Was the source helpful to you? Does the source relate to your potential topic?

The source informed me of developing technology that is critical to the future of medicine. It helped me learn more about the topic that I would like to research.

How and where can you use this source in your potential research project?

Throughout the project, I will attempt to use this source as much as possible to build credibility.

Make as many notes as you can so that you can come back to the source much later in the process without having to reread the document in its entirety.

Everything placed in Assignment 8

Throughout the years, scientists have developed differing ways to create medicine that helps differing groups of people. Everything has a genetic code made of genes, proteins, and nucleic acid. Good code keeps people safe and healthy, while bad code does the opposite. Because of the development in the understanding of different genetic codes, drug scientists are able to systematically design drugs to ensure they are precise in doing what they were created to do. Gene therapy, which is using viruses to implant genetic fixes into the patient’s own cells, allows pharmacologists to match the drug to specific genetic profiles in certain people. The development of medicine has led to the ability to cheaply and quickly diagnose infections and illnesses such as the common cold and strep throat. Medicine has already developed biochemical details and built huge databases. Without this, the many suppressants for the differing strains of HIV would not be existent.

A few years ago, some scientists at Stanford University developed the very first integrative personal omics profile, also known as iPOP. Through the use of the iPOP, many studies have been done to understand the detection of future diseases and illnesses that may occur to any person. The main study was conducted by Michael Snyder. The scientists behind the study were able to be the first people to witness the birth of a disease on a molecular level. They watched the birth of type 2 diabetes, which is a disease that affects millions of Americans. Because of iPOPing, the scientists have been able to link relationships between viral infection and type 2 diabetes.