BISC220/S12: Assignment 7

Apoptosis Paper
How does apoptosis proceed in HL-60 cells treated with etoposide (VP-16)? Please include:
 * 1) Title
 * 2) Abstract
 * 3) Results including figures with proper legends and an appropriate accompanying narrative text that thoroughly analyzes the data in an attempt to answer the experimental question
 * 4) Discussion
 * 5) References

You may omit the introduction and materials and methods. Remember that the written paper must be entirely your own and should focus on apoptosis triggered by etoposide in these cells - Why might this drug be an effective cancer treatment? What are the drawbacks to this type of treatment? The Abstract should contain a brief introductory/background statement, your experimental objective, the methods used, your results, and the significance of those results—all in a very condensed form. Use your experimental data to create pertinent figures. In your data analysis in results, be sure to do more than to merely describe the images or data: make sure you include a narrative flow that states the experimental objective, describes the methods used, and uses the data to answer to your experimental questions (if the data allow it). Include properly formatted legends for all figures and label specific structures on the images, where appropriate. The discussion should expand upon the conclusions from your data - comparing and contrasting it to what is already known and future directions you would take this study. This partial report will be worth 35 points.