Blog update No. 2 (Ross Honig)

I will like to continue on Matt Heiser’s blog on how chemistry affects medicine. Drugs are chemicals and all medicines are made up  of or refined by chemical processes. Such as pain killers, ant-biotics, and anti-cancer drugs. Also genetic disease can be screened by DNA analysis a chemical process. And Aneasthetics are chemicals. other examples are in chemistry labs in hospitals where they test blood for proteins, sugars, and other inorganic substances. Also electrolyte tests are normal for blood analyisis and they test for things like pottasium and sodium.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_contributions_of_chemistry_to_medicine

Blog Update #2 ( Brandon Revelli )

I would like to continue my earlier idea about how chemistry can explain the depollution and enviromentally sound ideas. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_water_purified&alreadyAsked=1

Water is purified through many different ways, the most simple ways are either to boil the water or to collect the condensation from water. These sound very simple but if you think about it it is astonishing that this cleans water and makes it safe to drink. The fact that the condensation of water happens naturally and cleans polluted water naturally is amazing. The fact that all of this comes together to provide clean drinking water for all living organisms. It is a small detail that is over looked when people think about the essentials to life and how it is that we have life on earth. The two pictures below are both relating to the 2 methods of cleaning the water, 1 is of simply boiling water. The other is a machine used to collect condensation out of the air and turn the gas back into a liquid, a very complicated chemical reaction.