Medical Biotechnology Science Projects (22 results)
You already know that medicines like antibiotics and aspirin can make you feel better when you are sick, but how do researchers find new medicines? Do medications work the same way for everyone? How can we use medicine to treat genetic diseases?
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Have you ever known someone who had a bad reaction to a prescription drug? Although pharmaceutical companies test new
drugs on a large number of people to make sure the drug works the way it is supposed to, often a small percentage of
people respond differently to the drug. A person's genetics plays a large role in determining his or her response to a
given drug.
Our genes are made up of hundreds to millions of nucleotides of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid),
the genetic code. If just a…
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Have you ever wondered how antibiotics and other medicines are able to stop dangerous infections? How do such medications kill microorganisms without in general harming the person the microorganisms are infecting? Because many different types of microorganisms can infect us, we have had to develop an amazing number of ways to deal with these harmful microbes. Fungal infections can be particularly dangerous, but we have developed many different antifungal medications that can usually deal with…
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