Ashland University Blog of Science

          Whenever you make a trip to the doctor there is a good chance that you will come out of the office with a prescription. Most of the time these prescriptions are for antibiotics. Antibiotics normally make you feel better within a few days of taking them. This is because antibiotics are products that kill or inhibit the growth of the bacteria that caused the sickness within your body, which is a very good thing. But what if your antibiotics no longer helped? This is something that may occur in the future.           They always say that practice makes perfect. Have you ever played a video game and died on a level? Well after multiple times of playing the level you eventually live and move on in the game. You will look back and wonder how you even got stuck on that level in the first place. This is a sensually how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotics are the challenges in the levels and the bacteria are you. Aft...

What exactly is Huntington’s disease? To start off it is a genetic illness that often occurs in people during their thirties and forties. This stage is called the adult-onset Huntington disease stage that is the most common form of the disorder. In comparison to adult-onset we see the less common form known as the juvenile form. This starts to become present in the stage of childhood or adolescence. This condition is considered to be an autosomal dominant pattern. What this tells us that one copy of the gene that became altered has enough power to bring forward the disorder. Due to this being a genetic disorder, often the altered gene is passed along from a parent that was also affected. The gene that bring about this disorder can be identified as the HTT gene. Huntington’s disease comes about by the repetition of a nucleotide. The repeated trinucleotides are CAG, which are pictured below. They have done studies that show in adult-onset Huntington’s that this repeat is present 40-50 ...