I learned a couple of interesting facts from the lecture. These included the face that humans were mainly made up of just protons and electrons. If all the water and space was extracted from our bodies, we would be 1/100 of a single strand of hair. This shows us how much of our body is made up of water and space. The lecture also included what contributes to mood swings. The two factors they talked about were environmental effects, such as weather, and noise pollution. I knew that weather affected one’s mood, since I have become unnecessarily angry at people when the weather was too hot. However, the noise factor was new to me. I guess I can understand it, since people can get irritated if there is a lot of noise but they are used to quiet, or even the other way around.
Other than the one lecture, we presented our midterm projects. My group was one of the groups that approached more of a serious matter, though I did enjoy all the ideas that everyone had, especially the one where we could have lenses that would highlight the world any way we want. There was another one where the people did a rap at the beginning, though I missed most of that because I was in the restroom.
My group’s topic is the treatment to HIV. Our idea is to have two injections: the first one would put in nanobots that would detect the HIV virus and the infected helper t cells and attach a synthetic substrate to them, and then the second injection would be synthetic enzymes that were made to fit the substrate from the first injection. Once together, the enzyme would release cytokines that would start the killer t cells, which is the muscle of the immune system. For the final project, we will add a powerpoint, with an animation of nanobot 1 and how it will attach the substrate.
http://www.avert.org/hiv-virus.htm
http://www.epigee.org/health/hiv_symptoms.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/transmission.htm