General Studies Period 8.

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General Studies Period 8

3.3.10 Past and present relationships between technology, science and society

Medical advances. Consumption of the earth’s resources Pollution and methods of waste disposal The protection and conservation of the environment Medical advances. The contributions of science and technology to human progress and lifestyles in society The effects of industry on ecological systems

Medical advances

Nanomachines drill into cancer cells and kill them within 60 seconds

Rice University https://youtu.be/UE_Zh8XUDuE

Nanoparticle-drug combo has potential to treat obesity and diabetes In so-called Notch signalling, a cell sends a signal to a neighbouring cell to control that neighbour's gene transcription and identity. Disrupting that signal in a progenitor cell destined to become one of the undesirable white fat cells leads to the creation of brown fat.

Why keep people alive for longer? So… Why keep people alive for longer?

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