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Biomedical Science in the 20th Century
At this point in history the field of medicine was the most prevalent sub field of biomedical science, as several breakthroughs on how to treat diseases and help the immune system were made. As well as the birth of body augmentations.

1910s
In 1912 the Institute of Biomedical Science was founded in the United Kingdom. The institute is still standing today and still regularly publishes works in the major breakthroughs in disease treatments and other breakthroughs in the field 117 years later. The IBMS today  represents approximately 20,000 members employed mainly in National Health Service and private laboratories.

1920s
In 1928 British Scientist Alexander Flemming created the first antibiotic penicillin. This was a huge breakthrough in biomedical science because it allowed for the treatment of bacterial infections.

In 1926 the first artificial pacemaker was made by Australian physician Dr. Mark C. Lidwell. This portable machine was plugged into a lighting point. One pole was applied to a skin pad soaked with strong salt solution, while the other consisted of a needle insulated up to the point and was plunged into the appropriate cardiac chamber and the machine started. A switch was incorporated to change the polarity. The pacemaker rate ranged from about 80 to 120 pulses per minute and the voltage also variable from 1.5 to 120 volts.

1930s
The 1930's was a huge era for biomedical research, as this was the era where antibiotics became more widespread and vaccines started to be developed. In 1935 the idea of a polio vaccine was introduced by Dr. Maurice Brodie. Brodie prepared a killed poliomyelitis vaccine, which he then tested on chimpanzees, himself, and several children. Brodie's vaccine trials did not go well since the polio-virus became active in a lot of the human test subjects. Many of the subjects had fatal side effects, paralyzing and causing death.

1940s
During and after World War II, the field of biomedical science saw a new age of technology and treatment methods. For instance in 1941 the first hormonal treatment for prostate cancer was implemented by Urologist and cancer reasearcher Charles B. Huggins. Huggins discovered that if you remove the testicles from a man with prostate cancer, the cancer had nowhere to spread, and nothing to feed on thus putting the subject into remission. This advancement lead to the development of hormonal blocking drugs, which is less invasive and still used today. At the tail end of this decade, the first bone marrow transplant was done on a mouse in 1949. The surgery was conducted by Dr. Leon O. Jacobson, he discovered that he could transplant bone marrow and spleen tissues in a mouse that had both no bone marrow and a destroyed spleen. The procedure is still used in modern medicine today and is responsible for saving countless lives.

1950s
In the 1950's we saw innovation in technology across all fields, but most importantly there was a lot of breakthroughs that helped lead us to modern medicine. On March 6, 1953 Dr. Jonas Salk announced the completion of the first successful killed-virus Polio vaccine. The vaccine was tested on about 1.6 million Canadian, American, and Finnish children in 1954. The vaccine was announced as safe on April 12, 1955.

3/22/19

Matthew Jefferson

Peer Reviewing: History of neuroscience

1.) The author edited the twentieth century section on the page, added some information that sounds pretty important for the field of neuroscience. The links all work and appear to be credible. Overall the article grabbed my attention due to the fact that neuroscience is an extremely interesting topic that I believe the world should indeed know way more about.

2.) I think the author should add some more about different cultures impact on the field rather than focusing all of their energy on islamic views, in order to appear bias. I am not saying they were trying to but some others out there might now view it as such.

3.) I think it would be extremely important to have the article tie into the modern day at the end. Currently standing the article goes up to the 20th century, and since we are in the 21st century it might be nice to see where we are at in the field of neuroscience today, even if we haven't accomplished a crazy amount since the turn of the century.

4.) I like how in their draft, they included contributions from different cultures and nations, and that is exactly what I am trying to do in my article of biomedical sciences. I could discuss a brief section on neuroscience, as it falls into the category of biomedical science.

Mtj522 (talk) 16:43, 22 March 2019 (UTC)Matthew Jefferson

3/17/19

Matthew Jefferson & Noah Williams

Drafting an Article

Biomedical sciences
I want to update this article so that the information displayed on it is actually factual and can be checked with links that are not broken, and try to make the information presented on the article appear to be less biased towards how the United Kingdom has contributed to the field, and focus it towards how the world has been involved in the field of biomedical sciences.

Original Introduction:

Biomedical sciences are a set of applied sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. Such disciplines as medical microbiology, clinical virology, clinical epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, and biomedical engineering are medical sciences. In explaining physiological mechanisms operating in pathological processes, however, pathophysiology can be regarded as basic science.

Biomedical Sciences, as defined by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Benchmark Statement in 2015 includes those science disciplines whose primary focus is the biology of human health and disease and ranges from the generic study of biomedical sciences and human biology to more specialised subject areas such as pharmacology, human physiology and human nutrition. It is underpinned by relevant basic sciences including anatomy and physiology, cell biology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics and molecular biology, immunology, mathematics and statistics, and bioinformatics. As such the biomedical sciences have a much wider range of academic and research activities and economic significance than that defined by hospital laboratory sciences. Biomedical Sciences are the major focus of bioscience research and funding in the 21st century.

Changes That need to be made to Intro:


 * The definition of biomedical sciences provided, is biased, and my original edit to it got deleted, so I plan on reworking my edit to make everyone happy.
 * The word specialized is spelled "specialiased" and that typo should be fixed, again.
 * Most of the links in this beginning portion of the article are broken, and so the information needs to be changed and adhered to links that are not broken so people can form their own opinions by reading a source that exists, if they wanted to.

Roles Within Biomedical science
This portion of the article is good, except for the fact that there are some sub-fields of biomedical science listed that either have broken links or don't have a link at all.

Things that need to be changed or expanded upon:


 * Update links if need be
 * Add links to sub-fields that do not have links
 * Elaborate on the importance of these sub-fields of biomedical science

Biomedical Science in the UK
There is a section in this article where it explicitly talks about how biomedical science is impotant to healthcare services in their countries, while ignoring the rest of the worlds contributions, so we are going to add sections about biomedical sciences in the rest of the world, or just delete the UK part and have the information added in the section apply to the whole world of science.

3/8/19

Editing an article

Edit Chunk: I want to make this definition less biased, and there is a typo in the chunk

Biomedical Sciences, as defined by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Benchmark Statement in 2015 includes those science disciplines whose primary focus is the biology of human health and disease and ranges from the generic study of biomedical sciences and human biology to more specialised subject areas such as pharmacology, human physiology and human nutrition.

Biomedical Sciences, as defined by States United for Biomedical Research  is the combination of biology and medicine to look for ways to treat fatal diseases in humans and animals, while the primary focus is  preventing human disease

Peer Review by Ccb8r8 (talk) 16:41, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

 * From what I have see so far, you guys have done a really good job of deciding what needs to be changed due to bias, errors, and links being broken and trying to fix them. I really like how you guys are challenging the original introduction by trying to change how the paragraphs are bias.
 * I think you guys should try to look for more sources that you can use for more information that has yet to be seen inside of this article already, instead of only trying to change the things that are already present in the article. I just think that applying more information would result in more information being spread and with good sources cannot be taking down.
 * I think that the best think that you guys could do to improve this article, would be to do more. I want to see how this type of science could be expanded in the near future and give more relevant data based on what you guys find.
 * Because I am editing the article of Raw Materials, there are only a few things that come to mind when talking about biomedical sciences, and those are how the biomaterials are starting to really take ahold of the world and how they are able to influence the body by just existing. One example would be hyrdoxyapatite and it's ability to influence the body to accept the material and integrate it into the body where it is chemically stable.
 * Overall, I feel like you guys have the right idea, there is just a need for more.

Ccb8r8 (talk) 16:41, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review by Sdbz64 (talk) 16:45, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Peer Edits for Biomedical Sciences Article - Mtj522 and Squatch BH 1117 I think your ideas for how to edit the article are great; the UK definitely is not the only country that has contributed to this field so it would be awesome to see the contributions the rest of the world has made.

There don't seem to be too many original edits to the article, just a plan of things you want to update or improve. It seems like much of it is based on removing bias from the article and finding more reliable sources for the article. I have a few other suggestions of things to add:


 * Examples of biomedical technology from some of the fields listed to give people an idea of how broad the biomedical sciences field is
 * A history or timeline of field-changing biomedical science discoveries. I think this is the most important thing that needs to be added to the article

Someone mentioned that you would like to add a section on important figures in the field. I love the idea! You could even mention people from S&T such as Dr. Delbert Day, whose company Mo-Sci manufactures the bioglass that our Ceramic Engineering department is known for. This article needed a lot of improvement and I am excited to see how it turns out. Sdbz64 (talk) 16:45, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

3/1/19

Matthew Jefferson and Noah Williams

Picking an Article and Deciding what to add

Article: Biomedical Sciences

Why did we choose the article?

Interesting topic, and the wikipedia page for it was terrible; the sources are outdated by a decade at a minimum, and the only sources are from the United Kingdom.

What was missing?

What do we want to add?

We want to add a brief history of the field to the article, and we want to include a more diverse set of ideas, that encompasses work from more cultures than the United Kingdom and what they had to say about the subject. We also are thinking about adding and important figures section, so that people know of important biomedical scientists throughout the history of the field.

LIST OF POSSIBLE SOURCES

1.)     https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB121153803/?fromsearch=true&query_string=history%20of%20biomedical%20science&last_query=/isis/%3Fq%3Dhistory%2Bof%2Bbiomedical%2Bscience%26models%3Disisdata.citation%26sort_order_citation%3Dpublication_date_for_sort%26sort_order_dir_citation%3Ddescend%26sort_order_dir_authority%3Dascend

2.)