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[|Blood: The Stuff of Life]

 * ==Number== || ==Name== || ==Topic Summary (Please include a link)== || ==Questions== ||
 * N/A || Mr McCormack || [|An Introduction to Blood Doping from The Mayo Clinic]

This video provides an introduction to the topic of performance-enhancing drug usage in the sport of cycling. Techniques and benefits of blood doping are discussed. The concentration of red blood cells is altered illegally to improve performance. || 1. What role does chemistry #|play in the area of sports science?

2. Are there any #|health risks which athletes are taking by participating in blood doping or using EPO? || This article is just an idea of what chimera really is. This is a first that I've heard of it being tested on animals and was very shocking to me. The topic of Chimera is one that has raised a lot of #|questions and criticism. || 1. What role/ imortance does Chimera #|play in chemistry and the #|study of #|phlebotomy? 2. If chimera is something that has been tested on mice before, and seen in some cases with humans in America, why is it needed to be teste on other animals? || This article explains a new way that doctors can tell if someone has cancer. The tests they take are using your blood and that could inform the doctors if you have early stage cancer. Read for #|more information! || 1) How can researchers know if someone has cancer by examining their blood? What is the differences between a healthy and a cancer patients blood? 2) Does this new technique of finding out if someone has early stage cancer <span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 19px !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> lives? Why or why not? Be specific. || This video is about sickle cell disease. In this video Tionne "T-boz" talks about challenges in her life.She is both of African American and Native American. She was diagnosed with sickle cell Anemia. || 1.What is the difference between sickle cell disease and sickle cell Anemia? 2.What is sickle cell crisis?How does a person develop sickle cell disease? 3.How is sickle cell Anemia treated? ||
 * 1 || J. || [|Chimera Tested On Animals!]
 * 2 || Merry || [|Blood test shows promise for cancer detection!]
 * 3 || Yordanos || []
 * 4 || Ignacio || [|Blood Alcohol Concentration]

Basically, the link is a brief summary for the amount of alcohol in blood, which is called Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) and the importance of testing an individual's alcohol concentration either for #|safety or judging after an accident. || 1.- How do you think this testing is made? Explain step-by-step if possible. 2.- What are the dangers of consuming alcohol in high amounts and why? are they only biological or do they have a chemical explanation? 3.-What concentration unit is used for BAC? || This article talks about the problems that occur when having hypertension, also referred as #|high blood pressure, and also talks about the #|blood pressure levels. || 1. How can hypertension or #|high blood pressure be prevented?
 * 5 || John || Hypertension

2. Pick 2 of the points in the article that causes hypertension and explain why you chose them. || This video is a breakdown of how the excess of the hormone oxytocin in the bloodstream results in "love". It is also an informal brief on the chemical reactions happening within your blood and their effect on you. || 1. If #|love can be explained by chemical reactions and the hormone oxytocin, is it a real emotion or just a product of a scientific coincidence? 2. What are some adverse side effects of an excess of oxytocin in the bloodstream? 3. What is your best chemistry <span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 19px !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> line? ||
 * 6 || NK || [|Science of Love The Chemistry of Love]
 * 7 || Ashley || What Colour is Your Blood?

Hank Green on the SciShow tells us the answer to the age old qustion; what colour is our blood? Hank goes on to tells us why our blood look blue though our skin, that the shade of red in our blood isn't always the same and the colour of other animals blood. || 1. What causes our blood to be red? Why is not all animal blood red? Give an example of an animal that doesn't have red blood.

2. Explain why some blood in your body is a brighter red than the blood in other places? What are those two types of blood called? || In this video, they show the procedure of separating blood products, red blood cells, platelets and plasma from donated blood. Also, they talk about what they do to preserve them. Furthermore, they demonstrate the automated process of testing a donor's blood <span style="background-color: transparent !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-variant: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 19px !important; margin: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> in labs to determine the blood type or to find infectious diseases. || 1. Why does having a large supply of fresh blood essential?
 * 8 || Georgia || [|How It's Made: Blood Products]

2. What are the advantages of preserving blood?

3. Do you think that the shelf life of blood will be affected if there was no technology supporting the blood banks or laboratories? || This article/research is about how people's blood may possibly be a signal if a person is suicidal or not. This talks about the research and testing they did on some people. They are doing research on it because people don't usually open up and tell people that they want to suicide so thy wanted to come up with another way to identify if a person is suicidal or not to prevent these tragic cases. || 1.Do you think by finding out someone is suicidal or not with their blood is going to help reduce the rate of people committing suicide? why or why not?
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 * 10 || Nica || [|Blood Markers May Signal Suicidal Risk]

2.What are the 4 genes that serve as markers to identify suicidal people?

3.Why do you think scientists were interested in finding out if blood markers can signal suicide risk or not? || This article is about anemia a genetic disease of the red blood cell. This article talks about the research done on red blood cells and how technology can has used to get rid of the gene. Geneticist can select the blood type of a baby to reduce the chances of it having the disease. || 1. How many people do you think have died due to sickle cell anemia in Canada? 2. How can the knowledge of chemistry be helpful to curing sickle cell anemia? || This video basically breaks down what the blood is about and what the blood is made up of.It explains the components of our blood and the job that each of the components of our blood perform to keep the blood flowing.Thrombocytopenia is a very dangerous blood disease. Thrombocytopenia can be fatal, especially if the bleeding is severe or occurs in the brain. However, the overall outlook for people who have the condition is good, especially if the cause of the low platelet count is found and treated. || 1. What are platelets, what is their task in the blood and how long do they last? 2. What is Thrombocytopenia ? And how is is caused? 3. Is there a treatment for it ? if there is how can it be treated? explain. || Believe it or not, anything that causes us stress, from school to relationships to going crazy about when lunch is, affects our blood pressure. It is important for everyone to relax once in a while so your body won't suffer any more from stress. But what is stress exactly? It is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. In english, stress is what you experience when you're overwhelmed by everything in your life. It triggers powerful emotions that can take a toll on your body. Because of this, it is important for us to relax once in a while. In my opinion, there's no such thing as too much free time. The link shows a video which talks about how stress affects the blood pressure in our bodies. || 1) How do YOU deal with stress exactly? Personally, I eat anything sweet like cake, chocolate and ice cream. 2) What happens to your blood pressure when you're under stress? || This article shows how through the method of using breathalyzers, they can figure out the glucose levels in your blood. This can be helpful because then they figure out exactly what you need to take to help moderate the glucose in your blood. Here you have an explanation about how we are advancing in the medical field and how important solutions to diabetes are as of now because of how many people are being diagnosed every year with diabetes. || 1)What do you think is a main cause of diabetes and what can you do to prevent it? 2)What other ways are there to figure out someones glucose levels in their blood? || Many people are afraid and horrified of the idea of giving something away that they've grown up with all of their life. Blood is widely needed in all hospitals and this donated blood can be used to help some one who is injured or who need help. This video shows the risks and restrictions of donating blood and the facts about donating blood. || 1. What are some restrictions to people who are donating blood for the first time?
 * 11 || Ugo || [|Sickle Cell Anemia]
 * 12 || Victor || What is Blood Thrombocytopenia
 * 13 || Frantz || How Stress Affects Blood Pressure
 * 14 || Michael || [|Blood Sugar and Diabetes]
 * 15 || Raffy || [|Donating Blood..Risks?]

2. Knowing the risks and after effects of donating blood, will you still consider donating blood in the future? Explain why. || These articles by the american red cross are about diversity in blood types and what makes them different. || 1.)Why do you think type O is so compatible with other blood types.
 * 16 || Isaac || Blood Types and Diversity

2.) After reading t he story of Rosalyn Grady how important do you think it is to have blood donors for different types of blood. || This article is about how food toxins were planted in genetically modified crops and are now found in unborn babies blood. || 1). What can be done to help the babies with toxin in their blood?
 * 17 || Angelica || [|Food toxins in your baby's blood?]

2). How did they find food toxins in their blood ? ||