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All about cells—A Biomedicine Course Review
Cells are the smallest units of life. They come in dazzling variety, and in the Cell, Stem Cell, and Developmental Biology course we learned a lot about them.
Amongst others, some of the most interesting things were…
- how bacteria have sex 🦠
- how to turn your skin cells into heart cells (or any other cells!)
- why in the world a zebrafish (or a worm, or a fly) is a suitable model for studying humans🐟
- when a lion and tiger breed, the size of the mother determines the size of the cub. 🐅🐆
- neural crest cells are our embryology lecturer’s favourite cells
- we have so much ”useless” DNA that our cells’ occasionally careless DNA repair mechanisms don’t bother us🧬
- etc
So as you can tell, I had an absolutely great time. This was one of my favourite courses. We had lectures, labs, a visit to Biomedicum imaging facilities, a project, and an exhibition.
Since this course made me learn in so many different ways, I thought I’d adopt a blog post format that challenges your expectations too. So I’m going to take you on a journey through this course in pictures! 📷🎞
One of the first days of class…
![A teacher pointing to a projected screen in the background, with a device screen showing "Science in the Classroom" in the foreground. The subheading is "Annotated research papers and accompanying teaching materials](https://studentblogs.ki.se/wp-content/uploads/sites/126/2020/02/img_0316.jpg?w=1024)
Some people might’ve gotten a bit enthusiastic about the note taking😂
![A page of notes with "STEM CELLS" in the center with letters in different colours and a heart between the two words.](https://studentblogs.ki.se/wp-content/uploads/sites/126/2020/01/aaec87f8-2851-4df1-b724-88ad7bc7fa22_original.jpg)
After our various labs we ended up with slides that we took to the Biomedicum Imaging Core…
![Four pictures of cells in an image manipulation software on a computer screen. Three pictures are red, blue, and green from fluorescent tags and the last image is an overlap of the first three. A person's hand holds the mouse,](https://studentblogs.ki.se/wp-content/uploads/sites/126/2020/01/img_4694_original.jpg?w=1024)
And the grand finale of the course, after the exam, was the exhibition! We had some prepartory lectures, a whole day of arts and crafts, and a morning of fika and conversation about the different topics in the room.
Here we stitch together the beginning and the end of the course, using a scientific paper to deepen our understanding of how different cells play a role in Alzheimer’s Disease.
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And with that we come to the end of this little tour! You can always find more details about the course online.
Cheers,
Inika ❤️
Inika Prasad — Biomedicine BSc
Hello, Inika here. I’m a third-year Biomedicine bachelor’s student at KI. I'm from India and a little bit from Sweden. As a Digital Ambassador Blogger, I'll be writing about my programme, things happening in and around KI, and giving insights into university life.
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