(This paper was designed by the author for a class assignment and as such is completely fabricated) TITLE: Follow your Nose FIRST PARAGRAPH Every bird examined to date has a fully functional olfactory system that is strikingly similar to the mammalian system. Also, many avian species are able to produce odour. However, researchers have struggled to demonstrate the existence of social odours or chemical signals in the avian community… (download pdf of paper here)
The Science Creative Quarterly
By kylaomilusik
Kyla Omilusik is a Ph.D student in Microbiology and Immunology. She is interested in studying how the human immune system fails to mount an efficient response against HIV. In her spare time, she writes poems with her lab-mate Kaan Biron. Hopefully, if her career in science doesn’t work out, she may be able to co-author books of poetry. Their first literary work goes like this: Roses are red, Violets are shades of yellows, We started doing are PhDs. Will we ever be Post-Doctoral fellows? (O.K. better stick to science)
FROM DYES TO PEPTIDES: THE EVOLUTION OF ANTIBIOTIC DRUGS
(August 2004) In the last century, nothing has made a bigger impact on human health than antimicrobial chemotherapy [1]. After 20 years of clinical use, antibiotics have increased the average human life expectancy by ten years while in comparison, curing cancer would only only extend life expectancy by two years [1]. From 1900 to 1990, the average life expectancy of citizens of the U.S. increased a staggering 29 years. In fact, in most of developed countries, mortality due to infectious disease has largely been replaced with mortality due to chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and strokes. Although the…