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'''Brief project overview:'''  Is it possible to make old animals young again without a time machine?  Maybe!  Stay tuned!
 
'''Background:'''  The walls of a eukaryotic cell’s nucleus may become warped or wrinkled with old age, which may cause the physical aging observed in animals.  A wrinkled nucleus can cause DNA damage.  Additionally, wrinkled nuclei indicate that a cell has become too old to flush out misfolded lamin A protein from the cell, leading to defects in the membrane.  If a drug is created which gets rid of misfolded lamin A, cellular aging might be slowed.
 
'''Statement of research and goals:'''  I would like to find out whether or not elderly cells lose their property of wrinkled cell membranes if misfolded lamin A proteins are removed.  More importantly, I want to know what effect this will have on animals. 
 
'''Details and methods:''' 
 
'''Outcomes:  Awesome and terrible:'''
 
'''Resources:'''
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060424/full/060424-11.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7080/full/440032a.html
http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-relations/media_relations/releases/2004/07/progeria.html
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


'''I can:'''  make an acorn whistle, play violin, do kung fu, fold paper cranes
'''I can:'''  make an acorn whistle, play violin, do kung fu, fold paper cranes

Revision as of 12:53, 9 June 2006

Lissa (Elizabeth) Riley

I can: make an acorn whistle, play violin, do kung fu, fold paper cranes

I can't: do more than 2 consecutive overhand chinups (yet!), make fudge that turns out right, start a fire with only a stick, engineer trees that grow treehouses, program in C++, do a wheelie

I like: science, engineering (duh), the Chinese class I had last term, Bach, swirly patterns in cut beets, snow, speaking Spanish, ginger, visiting countries very different from America, the smell of subway trains, the Mandelbrot set, Patrick Park, Nirvana, and not making lists like this overlong...

I dislike: mushrooms, misplaced certainty, wet socks, cilantro

Classes: BE.109, BE.320, BE.180, 7.05, 21M.301 (Harmony and Counterpoint), 21M.421 (MITSO), and UTF for Terrascope



http://web.mit.edu/lissa1/www/

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