When I was in grade school I was fascinated by nature. Instead of playing at recess I'd dig up a piece of grass and take it inside using a fruit cup from lunch or I'd catch a few ants and bring them inside. I used to get in trouble for keeping my finds in my desk cubby and other students thought I was weird. Around the same time my parents made me read a half an hour every day and an hour on the weekends so the books I frequently checked out of the library were nature books. I learned about everything from carnivorous plants to bombadier beetles. I was actually one of the less intelligent stud ...
I always thought my bio began when I was a little girl and just loved to be in nature, observing animals or plants. In school I loved the hidden logic in biology, in evolution. So it came natural to me to study biotechnology, loving all experimental work in the lab. But then I started my Master's Thesis. I chose to work on HIV associated dementia and its molecular mechanisms. I had to read a lot of case reports including one where a group of youths, none older than 14, was described. All HIV positive from birth, all with early onset HAD, not knowing who they were any more. All died young. I th ...
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When first carbon atom apeears on the world, organic life begins. All the known creatures have a hydrocarbon structure. ...
My learning of the life sciences began when my parents didn't have a refrigerator at home and I grew up watching them keep live fish in buckets to be cooked later. Yogurt or curd was made by inoculating milk with a seed culture, butter came from churning yogurt, stale bread was a substrate for molds, spinach was harvested for lunch from a vegetable patch and caterpillars would fill up our garden. Various life forms, either sustaining our diet or spoiling our food, in one single niche - Mom's Kitchen! ...
When I was child, my Mom used to cut up whole chickens to fry and she would always let me dissect the heart and liver from the bag of "goodies" inside. That was the beginning of my scientific career. My science teachers in middle school were also a huge influence for me. ...
When I was in 4th grade, a long long time ago, I read Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia Vol. 1: Featuring Your Body. This book introduced me to the fascinating world of human biology and inspired me to pursue a career in science. ...
We are all naturally curious, hungry for knowledge, and anxious for accomplishment, however, we must thank those who channeled those tendencies to enable us to find our own sense of greatness. Starting with our parents who taught us how to pray, form relationships and to be thankful. We have had teachers like the generous grade 1 teacher I knew, innovative and imaginative teachers through high school, university to mentors in the working world. Finally we have families with great kids who keep the cycles going ... and the Bio-formation continues throughout time and space, in the sciences and ...
My bio began when I was a kid playing in the garden. My brother and I started doing experiments before we knew the meaning of the word. We would hunt lizards and inject them with anything we found in the medicine cabinet. With my father being a doctor we found quite a few things. The laxatives had the most memorable effect. The pool was the respiratory centre. Can a person breathe under water? How long can you hold your breath? We chased bees and they chased us. We would care for any type of animal that wondered into our garden including hedgehogs, cane-rats, rabbits, snakes, spiders and birds ...