During your international health final it asks: "List three causes of cancer as discussed in our lecture on chronic diseases."
And you immediately think:
1. tumor suppressor genes acquiring loss of function mutation
2. chromosomal rearrangement causing an increase in transcription of proto-oncogenes
3. mutations in p53 resulting in unregulated cell proliferation
Instead of:
1. tobacco
2. alcohol
3. living a long time
oops. wrong lecture. wrong class.
I think my brain has been permanently altered to science mode.
done done DONE with finals. hooray!
M
ps for part I and part II click here and here
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I told someone recently about you and how you loved infectious diseases. I think the conversation also contained references to the movie Outbreak and I was tempted to whip out the Psych reference, but she doesn't watch that show, so instead I told her about you and how you were annoyed with all the impossibilities in Outbreak.
She may have related better to Patrick Dempsey's hair.
Oh how I love microbiology majors! Isn't the brain in science mode the best? The world is so much more interesting when viewed in science mode!
One thing that is weird to me is that we really can only identify a very small fraction of all the organisms in the world. I think it is evidence that those pesky viruses are responsible for all our problems. I just know it.
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