Mr.Ippolito
Core Biology
November 28, 2018
Current Event Review 9
Temming, Maria. “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” Science News, 28 Nov. 2018, www.sciencenews.org/article/patch-studded-tiny-needles-may-help-heart-attack-survivors-recover.
For this week's current event, I read Maria Temmings article called “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” This article focused mainly on a new invention of a patch that could help heart attack survivors clean up the damaged tissue after having a heart attack. Each bandage is made out of a thin film that provides healthy molecules to heal the damaged tissue around the heart after a heart attack. The entire sheet is filled with tiny needles that deliver vaccines to the heart without having to stick anything on the skin. This in turn aids in minimizing scarring and preserving the overall health of the heart when pumping blood to the rest of the body. In addition, the patch is coated in a gel that contains cardiac stromal cells. These cells aid in the growth of the muscle cells surrounding the heart. According to Ke Chang, a biological engineer at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the patch cells are considered to be little pharmacies surrounding the heart. In order to test his claim, he attached these patches on rats and pigs. “Three weeks after researchers induced rats to have heart attacks, the animals with microneedle patches had roughly 40 percent healthy tissue in the regions of their hearts affected by the heart attack, whereas as untreated rats had only about 10 percent.” This remarkable point just points to how successful these technological discoveries could be in the near future. Even on pigs, the result of wearing the patch was overwhelming compared to a pig that did not have one. “For the pigs, the researchers tracked heart health by measuring how much blood was pumped from the animal’s left ventricle to the rest of its body with each heartbeat. Four hours after a heart attack, each heartbeat released about 56 to 57 percent of all the blood in the left ventricle, in both treated and untreated pigs. But 48 hours after the attack, the results began to diverge: Hearts treated with microneedle patches pumped about 60 percent of the left ventricle volume, while untreated hearts pumped about 50 percent.” This just points to how efficient this patch really is.
Overall, I feel that Maria Temming did a great job in informarming the population of the remarkable discoveries scientists are making all around the world. Especially with a condition that affects most of our population, she provided hope to people out there that your heart can indeed heal after experiencing a heart attack. In other words, this bandage that exudes proteins and other molecules that promote muscle cell growth could one day prevent the recurrence of heart attacks on the human heart. In addition, Temming used knowledge from respected scientists in order to prove her claim. This not only strengthens her knowledge on the topic but sets her up for later success on future scientists experiments.
I enjoyed reading this article because it got straight to the point and the facts needed to understand the overall topic right in front of you. Instead of trying to make the article longer, she summed up her points in an orderly fashion and got right to the point. However, I believe that Temming could’ve b spent more time explaining the overall causes of the heart attack and maybe even the results of placing the patch on others animals. This in turn would point to how the patch would affect a human heart. In addition, Temming could’ve done more research and gotten the opinions from more scientists on what they thought of the patch as a whole. In the end, I believe that Temming did a great job in discovering something that greatly affects everyone who suffers from heart attacks. I hope to read more of her articles in the future.
Alex Doukas
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Mr Ipp.
December 4, 2018
Temming, Maria. “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” Science News, 28 Nov. 2018, www.sciencenews.org/article/patch-studded-tiny-needles-may-help-heart-attack-survivors-recover.
For this week's current comment, I decided to read Kathryn Haggerty's review about the article written by Maria Temmings,“This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” As Kathryn depicted the article, I learned that the new creation of a thin film-like substance could begin to assist and help heart attack survivors repair and clean out the damaged tissue after having a heart attack. This gives the opportunity for molecules to aid the damaged tissue around the heart after a heart attack occurs. She also included how after applying this in animals, they had 40 percent healthy tissue where heart attacks occur. In my opinion, Kathryn got very deep with the information and she was diligent while explaining the aspects she grasped from the article. I decided to read her article because I find this topic something I am not familiar with and heart attacks have impacted my family over the past couple of years and learning more about how they are caused, and most importantly what we can do to prevent them is something fascinating.
Although Kathryn did a great job with the information, she could have explained what the next steps forward are going to be. If she included this, it would give the reader a better understanding of how it will truly impact the humans that are suffering with heart issues and what the process will be. Something that she could have added was quotes from the people working on the heart patches and see view their insight about this topic. By incorporating this, it provides actual evidence about what they are currently doing and what will happen next.
Learning about this topic gave me insight about certain things that I wasn't very familiar with, which is especially interesting because everything I learned was something new. This new creation is very beneficial for many families and could help people live longer. Since Kathryn gave an abundance of information, it was interesting to see already how they are planning to change peoples lives. Many suffer with certain diseases that could never be cured and they will have to live with that fact for the rest of their life, but since our technology has advanced tremendously and the intelligent people that help and create these exceptional cures, many that live with heart problems have the opportunity to get another shot.
Olivia Conniff
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Bio 10H
Current Event 10
This week for current events I read Kathryn Haggerty's review of the article “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover”, by Maria Temmings. Kathryn wrote an excellent description of what the article was about, describing a new creation, a thin film-like substance that could help heart attack survivors repair and remove the damaged tissue after having a heart attack. Kathryn did an excellent job with her review, describing the contents of the article in much detail as well as in simple and easy to understand words. I also thoroughly enjoyed the quotes and amount of detail that she included from the article. She included a large amount of information, not confusing just enough to help me understand. Finally, Kathryn provided valid, constructive criticisms that can help the writer, Maria Temmings improve her writing.
Overall, Kathryn’s review was excellent and very enjoyable to read, but there were a few things that she could improve to make it even better. First, while the large quantity of information was helpful for the most part, I feel like some of the information could have been cut out as in some places it was a bit too much. I also feel that if she had included more quotes, it would have been a stronger review overall. Finally, there were some grammatical and spelling issues which is a simple thing to fix and would make her review much stronger.
Kathryn’s article taught me a great deal about something extremely interesting that I was not aware of before. This heart patch seems like it will be very beneficial for people that have suffered from heart attacks. Many people suffer with diseases that could never be cured and they will have to live with that fact for the rest of their life, but because of technological advances many people suffering from heart problems have amazing opportunities to treat their conditions.
Calvin Golimbu 12/17/18
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Temming, Maria. “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” Science News, 28 Nov. 2018, www.sciencenews.org/article/patch-studded-tiny-needles-may-help-heart-attack-survivors-recover.
Kathryn Haggerty was able to explain the purpose of the article really well and allowed me to gain a good understanding of what was happening in the article before I read it. I chose this because it is important to include, otherwise your review will confuse people that may not know what is happening because they may have not read the article. She is very good at pointing out the importance and relevance of this article. An example of this would be “This article focused mainly on a new invention of a patch that could help heart attack survivors clean up the damaged tissue after having a heart attack.” I chose this because it is important to strongly state how important something is because without having the importance the article is weak and the review and article have no purpose. Kathryn also applies good grammar to her review. This is important because it strengthens the review, makes it more credible and allows it to flow more.
Kathryn could add more diverse quotes from the article or reference the article more because without this the review can seem less credible and boring. This can be corrected by adding more quotes from the article that relate to something in the review. In her review she is very plain and boring and this takes away from the flow and the impact of the review. This can be corrected by moving the topic along and writing as if you were completely interested and wanted to know more about this topic..
It is very fascinating how amazing this invention could be and how it could help so many people. I chose this because it could truly save a lot of people and I have plenty of people in my life who have had to deal with major heart attacks and I feel that this product could really help them. This changes the way I see treatments for heart attacks and many other heart diseases in the future that could be either cured or helped by this invention.
Teddy Wardell
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Core Bio
Current Event #11
Temming, Maria. “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” Science News, 28 Nov. 2018, www.sciencenews.org/article/patch-studded-tiny-needles-may-help-heart-attack-survivors-recover.
For this week’s Current Event I read Kathryn Haggerty’s review on the article,“This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” This article focused mainly on a new invention of a patch that could help heart attack survivors clean up the damaged tissue after having a heart attack. I think that Kathryn did a very good job writing this article and did numerous things to improve the text. For example, Kathryn had a lot of details in her article which helped make it easier for the readers to understand and made the article much more interesting to read. Kathryn also did a great job in grabbing the reader's attention. She did this by stating interesting facts which benefited the article. This his helped the reader not get bored while reading. Another thing that Kathryn did well was give a strong opinion on weather or not she thought the article was good. She said that she enjoyed the article and we can tell from her response.
Kathryn had a very solid article. However, I would have added some things to the text to make it even better. First, Kathryn had some grammar mistakes such as missing punctuation. This could have been easily fixed by proof reading the paper or using an application like grammarly to check the work. Another, thing that I would have changed is having a bit more explanation in the final paragraph. This would help the reader understand why you liked or disliked certain aspects of the article.
I found this article very interesting and I learned a lot from it. One thing that I found to be interesting was the fact that roughly 40 percent healthy tissue in the regions of their hearts affected by the heart attack, whereas as untreated rats had only about 10 percent. Overall, I thought that this article was very well written and was very insightful.
Teddy Wardell
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Core Bio
Current Event #11
Temming, Maria. “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” Science News, 28 Nov. 2018, www.sciencenews.org/article/patch-studded-tiny-needles-may-help-heart-attack-survivors-recover.
For this week’s Current Event I read Kathryn Haggerty’s review on the article,“This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” This article focused mainly on a new invention of a patch that could help heart attack survivors clean up the damaged tissue after having a heart attack. I think that Kathryn did a very good job writing this article and did numerous things to improve the text. For example, Kathryn had a lot of details in her article which helped make it easier for the readers to understand and made the article much more interesting to read. Kathryn also did a great job in grabbing the reader's attention. She did this by stating interesting facts which benefited the article. This his helped the reader not get bored while reading. Another thing that Kathryn did well was give a strong opinion on weather or not she thought the article was good. She said that she enjoyed the article and we can tell from her response.
Kathryn had a very solid article. However, I would have added some things to the text to make it even better. First, Kathryn had some grammar mistakes such as missing punctuation. This could have been easily fixed by proof reading the paper or using an application like grammarly to check the work. Another, thing that I would have changed is having a bit more explanation in the final paragraph. This would help the reader understand why you liked or disliked certain aspects of the article.
I found this article very interesting and I learned a lot from it. One thing that I found to be interesting was the fact that roughly 40 percent healthy tissue in the regions of their hearts affected by the heart attack, whereas as untreated rats had only about 10 percent. Overall, I thought that this article was very well written and was very insightful.
Riley Morgan Current event 11
ReplyDeleteBio Mr. Ippolito december 16 2018
Temming, Maria. “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” Science News, 28 Nov. 2018, www.sciencenews.org/article/patch-studded-tiny-needles-may-help-heart-attack-survivors-recover.
For my current event I read the review written by Kathryn Haggerty on the article “This Heart Patch Studded With Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover” by Maria Timings. One thing I really liked about her review was how well she described the events that were discussed in the article. She did a great job describing the object which is a “thin film like substance” that helps heart attack survivors repair and remove damaged tissue after they have a heart attack. When she said “The entire sheet is filled with tiny needles that deliver vaccines to the heart without having to stick anything on the skin. This in turn aids in minimizing scarring and preserving the overall health of the heart when pumping blood to the rest of the body. In addition, the patch is coated in a gel that contains cardiac stromal cells. These cells aid in the growth of the muscle cells surrounding the heart” It was a really good way to describe it without being too wordy or complicated. It was evident that her information was accurate and made me feel like I was reading the article itself. I decided to read this article because I love medical advances and find them very fascinating.
To make her Article better she could of tried to find information (if not stated in the original article) about what the next steps are for getting it tested and or used on humans. It would be really fascinating if she did. She used two very long quotes which were good but also made it seem like she did not want to write her own information and was only using them to fill up space.
Kathryn’s article taught me about the advancement they are making in cardiatric medicine that I did not know before. The patch seems super innovative and exciting for people in the medical world, along with the sufferers from heart attacks. So many people suffer and die from them. Because of this advance, it's possible that this could revolutionize heart attack survival and treatment forever.
Ben Mandanas
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Core Bio
3 January 2018
Temming, Maria. “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” Science News, 28 Nov. 2018, www.sciencenews.org/article/patch-studded-tiny-needles-may-help-heart-attack-survivors-recover.
For this week’s current event review, I read Kathryn Haggerty's review of the article “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover”, by Maria Temmings. Kathryn summarized the article very well, she included excellent detail with great supporting evidence. Another aspect of Kathryns article that was good was the description of the heart patch, it is a film like substance that could help heart attack survivors and remove the damaged tissue. Kathryn also did a great job in grabbing the reader's attention. She did this by stating interesting facts which benefited the article.
Overall, Kathryn wrote a very solid article. Although, it was a great article there is always room for improvement. One simple thing is her grammar, she is missing punctuation in some spots. This is an easy fix by reading over your article. Lastly, she could have cut some of the quotes down or used ellipse, they are very long and tend to drag on.
In conclusion, her article was very enlightening on a subject that I have miniscule knowledge on. This heart patch seems like it will be very beneficial for people that have suffered from heart attacks. Overall, this can help many people and is a great innovation.
Ben Davis
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Core Biology
Current Event 1
Temming, Maria. “This Heart Patch Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors
Recover.” Science News, 28 Nov. 2018,
www.sciencenews.org/article/patch-studded-tiny-needles-may-help-heart-attack-survivors-recover.
This week for my current event, I read Kathryn Haggerty’s review of Maria Temming’s article, “This Heart Patched Studded with Tiny Needles May Help Heart Attack Survivors Recover.” The first thing I noticed that Kathryn did well, was reveal the main idea of the article. Kathryn said, “This article focused mainly on a new invention of a patch that could help heart attack survivors clean up the damaged tissue after having a heart attack.” Immediately, after reading this sentence I understood what the article she read was about. Knowing the general point of the text allowed me to understand what she was saying as she went further into detail about the article. Another thing Kathryn successfully executed was explaining to the reader how damaged tissue from a heart attack can be cleaned. Kathryn wrote “Each bandage is made out of a thin film that provides healthy molecules to heal the damaged tissue around the heart after a heart attack. The entire sheet is filled with tiny needles that deliver vaccines to the heart without having to stick anything on the skin.” Kathryn described this complex topic very clearly and efficiently. Kathryn did a strong job of including real-life examples of the Heart Patch cleaning damaged heart tissue. She discussed tests ran on rats at North Carolina State University of Raleigh. Kathryn said, “Three weeks after researchers induced rats to have heart attacks, the animals with microneedle patches had roughly 40 percent healthy tissue in the regions of their hearts affected by the heart attack, whereas as untreated rats had only about 10 percent.” This example included by Kathryn clearly showcases that the Heart Patch is effective with cleaning heart tissue.
While Kathryn did many things successfully in her review of Temmings article, there are a few things she could have done better. Kathryn should have cut out some information that was confusing and a little excessive. For example, Kathryn says, “In addition, the patch is coated in a gel that contains cardiac stromal cells. These cells aid in the growth of the muscle cells surrounding the heart.” This information is correct however, it is not necessary for explaining the main idea of the article. Another thing Kathryn could have done better in her review is after giving the main idea of the article, she should have given some context about how heart attacks are caused. This would amplify the threat that heart attack posess and create intrigue for the reader.
Kathryn’s review helped made me better understand heart attack relief. Before reading her review I was very uninformed about heart attack treatment. I chose to read Kathryn’s review because after scrolling through a page of current events, her title intrigued me the most. Heart attacks negatively affect the majority of Americans. That is why after reading this article I am hopeful that soon people will be able to make full recoveries from even the worst of attacks. The technology discussed in this review will have a large impact on my life. A few of my family members have suffered a heart attack before and this technology will allow them to live longer and healthier lives.