I think that the fact that there is a virus like the FIV is scary. It can move on to you anytime it wants. I think scientists should figure out and create a medicine that will kill all kinds of viruses, even the new ones that keep producing new ones. I think that the people with HIV will have to wait a long time before the problem gets solved.
Friday, 30 September 2011
SCIENCE: CURRENT EVENT 2
Did you know that scientists discovered that there are glow-in-the-dark cats? But they also figured out that the problem causing the cat to glow is a virus called Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) which is similar to HIV virus. In US, if there are 100 cats, 1-3 cats will have FIV. This is because the cats keep biting each other which cause the virus to flow into one and other. HIV can also cause AIDS. A person with AIDS is unable to fight off infections. The scientists think that with studying FIV, they can find a way to help the people with HIV. The FIV virus is a tiny particle that attacks the cells in the body and produces one and other over and over. The set of instructions that the FIV virus uses is called genes. Poeschla, a scientist, tested and made a substance similar to the FIV virus and found a way to kill the substance. Then Poeschla tried putting the substance he made on a cat. If the cat glowed, it means that the test is working. If the substance glowed, that meant that Poeschla found a way to help people with HIV. They still don’t know if the formula they found will work on people.
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Saturday, 24 September 2011
SCIENCE: CURRENT EVENT
On September 23, 2011, NASA supposed that a artificial satellite named UARS will be reentering the earth's atmosphere. They suspected that at late night time of September 23rd or the morning of 24th, the satellite will be landing on earth. They didn't know where the UARS will be landing. NASA said that UARS won't be landing in USA but they think it will land in the ocean. NASA is expecting that the UARS will break into 26 pieces and said some of the pieces would not be able to burn before it enters the earth. Finally they found out that on the 24th morning the pieces of UARS landed in the Pacific Ocean.
-Sooyoung Byun
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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