Medicine in the 2000s

Reader,

Lucky might not be the word, how about fantastically lucky, now we can cure measles, chicken pox and much much more. If you lived back in 15, 16 and maybe even the 17 and 18 hundreds, and you got sick you would die no question. But when scientists and doctors work together, we can get amazing cures for terrible diseases.

Medicine is now at it's  highest ever, people still do die but at least not as many people, aren't you glad  that if you got cancer you might have the chance of survival,  you might not,  but hey nobody is perfect.

At 21st Century Medicine they are studying cryobiology,  the process of freezing to preserve biological specimens. The word criobiology comes from the greek word ''kryos" meaning "cold".  Principels of criobiology are fixed in the Arrhenius Equation,which states that all chemical reactions happen slowly as temperature falls.  For example: when the ezyme catalase is reduced from normal body temperature it reacts at one fith it's normal speed, yet when is rises back to  body temperature it returns to normal.

This is important when doing organ transplants, it allows the organ to remain usable for up to 2 days. This small opportunity has surgeans going against the clock to make a succesfull transplant. The goal at 21st Century Medicine is to find ways to protect cells from damage so they can function after days or even months.

Thanks for reading,
   Mary


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