Amir Yaghoobi
12/28/18
Bio
Current event #8
University of Colorado at Boulder. "Chemical synthesis breakthrough holds promise for future antibiotics." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 December 2018. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181220080006.htm>.
For current even # 12 I took an interest in a article that revolved around experiments overseen by the University of Colorado. Their study, conducted by graduate students Aaron Hinds and Wyatt Powell as well as CU Boulder postdoctoral researcher Siddhartha Akasapu, discovered a new methodology in fighting Antibiotic-resistant infections. In order to combat these life threatening illnesses claiming the lives of 23,000 U.S. citizens yearly, Akasapu and his team had to invent a new process that synthesizes these antibiotics. To achieve this, they studied previously identified thiopeptides, an antibiotic compound that occurs naturally, and discovered a means of mass production. The team was then able to invent a catalyst to speed up the reaction causing these naturally occurring thiopeptides. As a result of this discovery, two new antibiotics were created micrococcin P1 and thiocillin I. Although these new Antibiotics are still in their early testing phases, there is a significant likelihood that they will save the lives of many people in the years to come.
The rise of Antibiotic resistant infections has resulted in a worldwide demand for a new kind of Antibiotic. With these infections affecting over 2 million people yearly, it is clear that something had to be done to prevent further fatalities. That is where Akasapu and his team comes in, their new antibiotics are not only effective, but are environmentally sound as well. The manufacturing of this new green antibiotic only results in one waste product, water. In conclusion, this new Antibiotic will not only save lives, it will save our environment as well.
Overall, this article was well written and covered the majority of the necessary information. However, I was left feeling that I missed a rather significant portion of the details. Such information would include, the dates of these new discoveries, and how long the experiments lasted for. With the inclusion of those details, my appreciation for the discoveries would have been a lot greater than it currently is. Despite my grievances with this article, I can say with full confidence that the information covered within it was of the utmost importance in our current predicament. As a result, I would suggest any of you that are interested to read the article, but also keep in mind that there is more information that should have been elaborated upon.
Isabella Bouvard
ReplyDelete1/4/19
Core Biology 10H|Block C-Odd/Mr. Ippolito
Current Events #12
University of Colorado at Boulder. "Chemical synthesis breakthrough holds promise for future antibiotics." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 December 2018. .
For this week's current events, I decided to read my classmate Amir’s review on "Chemical synthesis breakthrough holds promise for future antibiotics." published by Science Daily. Overall, I found Amir’s summary very well written. He included many details as to the achievement of the synthesis of antibiotic-fighting infections. I was very intrigued by the topic in general and would love to learn more about the outcome of this experiment. Using sentences such as “Although these new Antibiotics are still in their early testing phases, there is a significant likelihood that they will save the lives of many people in the years to come.”Amir really intrigued the reader and made sure that he included many details in order to describe his topic correctly. I decided to choose this article because I was very interested by the title, and wanted to learn more about just how chemical synthesis could potentially help future antibiotics.
Although Amir’s writing was exceptional, there were a couple of errors that he might have had throughout his summary that he could tweak. Although this is very insignificant, there was a white highlight on the majority of the text. I feel as if I often found myself getting distracted while reading his review, making it difficult to read at points. However, this can simply be fixed by fixing the highlight prior to posting the blog. Another thing I found was that Amir did not explain the information that he provided enough in order to make it understandable to the reader, as he describes in the first paragraph that “as a result of this discovery, two new antibiotics were created micrococcin P1 and thiocillin I.” but fails to provide more details on such inventions. I feel if he did include more of an explanation in his writing, it would be a lot easier for the reader to understand in general.
In general however, many concepts of Amir’s article were very interesting. With the innovation of these new antibiotics, over two million people will have the ability to receive the medication that they require for their illness therefore making it easier to tackle further casualties. It is so amazing to see how much medicine has advanced throughout recent times. I decided to choose this summary as I am interested in the practice of medicine and how it can be provided in order to improve the well-being of people. Overall, this innovation is extremely necessary and will help with further medicinal advancement.
Liam Krall
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Current event 12
12/9/19
Link: University of Colorado at Boulder. "Chemical synthesis breakthrough holds promise for future antibiotics." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 December 2018. .
I am Doing a comments section on a review by amir Yagoobi on the article “chemical synthesis breakthrough holds promise for future` antibiotics” by the university of colorado at boulder. One thing i thought Amir did well was that he introduced the topic really well by introducing the question and answering who what when where why. Another thing that he did well was that he explained what was important in the paragraph. And third he was able to explain clearly everything that is important to him.
One thing he could improve was the results from the experience tested and the specificness of them. A second thing he could have done better was that he could have explained how he got the results and how they tested for it. Otherwise the article was very good.
This was a very good review i feel it was very good in the sense that it was a good overview of the topic and i would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the study of antibiotics.
Calvin Golimbu 1/14/19
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University of Colorado at Boulder. "Chemical synthesis breakthrough holds promise for future antibiotics." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 December 2018. .
Amir Yaghoobi 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. He is very good at pointing out the importance and relevance of this article. An example of this would be “Although these new Antibiotics are still in their early testing phases, there is a significant likelihood that they will save the lives of many people in the years to come.” 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. Amir states a lot of facts from the article. This makes his review more credible and stronger.
Amir could try to speak her mind more and talk more from her perspective, this can make the article more seem more important and make her review seem more personal. He could fix this by using I or me more. He also does not use any quotes which makes his review seem less credible and powerful. He could fix this by including some quotes from the article.
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 help people with major diseases fight infection. This changes the way I see the possibility of saving people with bad infections or people who have to deal with antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Teddy Wardell
ReplyDelete1/13/19
Core Bio
Current Event 13
For this week’s Current Event I read Amir Yaghoobi’s review on "Chemical synthesis breakthrough holds promise for future antibiotics." published by Science Daily. This article was about a study conducted by graduate students Aaron Hinds and Wyatt Powell as well as CU Boulder postdoctoral researcher Siddhartha Akasapu, discovered a new methodology in fighting Antibiotic-resistant infections. I think that Amir did a very good job writing this article and did numerous things to improve the text. For example, Amir 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. Amir 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 Amir 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.
Amir had a very solid article. However, I would have added some things to the text to make it even better. First, Amir 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 these infections affecting over 2 million people yearly. This was interesting because I did not know that these infections affected so many people. Overall, I thought that this article was very well written and was very insightful.