How Cells Brace Themselves for Starvation

Summary: Sugar, cholesterol, and certain phosphates in the human body can stay leveled pretty well. There are pumps that help keep sugar levels well. When sugar levels are good, there is the active pump and when sugar levels are bad, the body can return sugar back to normal very well. On February 23, 2012, scientists in the lab of Prof. Naama Barkai of the Molecular Genetics Department discovered that the cells that stop the bad pump during the abundance of nutrients can help better in starvation and recovering from it way better than the genetically engineered ones. The good time pumps warn the mechanism of upcoming starvation. The mechanism then does well in storing up nutrients to help levels of sugar, cholesterol, and phosphates leveled

 Impact: This discovery is really good to help needy people and people in third world countries to live longer and stay healthier in bad times! Helping the bad pump do its job, this could lead to helping people with high or low cholesterol problems and to help people with diabetes. Just like Lorenzos Oil, we could find a cure and prevention of diseases and syndromes from leveling out nutrients and things they need to keep leveled leveled.

Critique: I really think this is interesting because so many people are poor. My parents are the once percent hahaha. But learning about things in our body that helps our body go into survival mode when dyeing is I guess the answer to life. I could never be a scientist because I would be able to find ot anything new to study and discover. Finding a revolutionary breakthrough is just as scarce as inventing a new genre of music, well to me. When you learn more and more about the human body, it makes you feel like you can die so fast if one with goes wrong in your body! It’s scary but really fun to learn new ways to help your body or what things are already helping your body.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120223103914.htm