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     Stem cells are considered to be the future of research according to many people because its capabilities are boundless and there is still a lot to learn about them. I am a person who believes that more research is needed on stem cells. I decided that I should perform some research on stem cells. As a high school student, I believed that it would not be very difficult to research stem cells. However, I was mistaken. Stem cells are some of the most complex cells to research and they are extremely hard to obtain.  General Information      Stem cells are cells that have the ability to turn into any cell in the human body. These cells are the first cells that a human being has when developing as a fetus. As a person ages, the number of stem cells a person has decreases. Stem cells are cells that can differentiate into different types of cells. When humans are first born, they have embryonic stem cells that can turn into every type of cell. Stem Cells c...

     This first time I watched a surgery, I was surprised and bored in the beginning, but this time I was interested throughout. The surgery I watched this time was a total knee revision. Orthopedic surgeons perform this procedure when the replacement for a patient's knee developed some problem. In my case, the knee replacement was too loose. So in this procedure the surgeon replaced the prosthetic knee with another prosthetic knee. This surgery was much shorter than the surgery I watched the last time. This one lasted around one and a half hour while the radical prostatectomy lasted almost six hours. This surgery was not performed by a robot was the type of surgery you would expect to see in the movies. There were three main surgeons, two senior mentors, and a surgical nurse. In this blog, I will describe the procedure to the best of my ability. The major stages of this procedure are preparation, incision, resection of the previous prosthetic, drilling holes, preparing a...