Jimmy Purdy Article
Review
“Scientists Find Way
to Control Sugars”
The
article I read about goes into detail about how scientists at Simon Fraser
University are finding out that enzymes responsible for processing starch into
glucose can be turned on and off, helping to control blood sugar. This process is called “toggling” where
inhibitors, which are chemically designed, can be placed in the body to
regulate starch digestion. In a nutshell
you need 4 types of enzymes to produce sugars from starch and scientists can
now take away an enzyme with these inhibators.
This
is a huge accomplishment for scientists and doctors because it can be used to
help regulate type 2 diabetes. It can
also lea to solutions in people who are obese because one of the main culprits
that cause obesity is sugar. If this
technology is applied the right way, the contributions can be endless.
After
reading this article I think it was very well written because it is a complex
process, but the author made it easy to understand. Also, I liked how he related the technology
to an applied solution.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120927104307.htm
4 comments:
Jimmy did a really nice job summarizing what the author wrote about in the article. He explained what the job of the enzymes was and what their affect is on diseases like diabetes. I liked how he explained the process of “loggling”. I have never heard of it until now and found it to be very interesting. I also liked how you need 4 different types of enzymes to produce sugars. Two things that jimmy could have done differently was go into detail about what type of technology should be applied and how it can contribute to curing diabetes. I know many people with diabetes and would find it to be amazing if they could apply a type of technology to cure this disease. Secondly I think jimmy should have talked about how and why scientists went about figuring out why the starch in the glucose can be turned on and off. One thing that really interested me about this article is that the inhibitors that are placed in the body are chemically designed to regulate starch can be turned on and off.
I really enjoyed reading this article about the various ways to control sugar in america. I liked how he summarized the article in three well condensed paragraphs that made everything easy to grasp and understand. I also liked how he adressed the obesity problem, which is becoming greater by the day in America, hopefully this sugar control can help lower that issue. a third thing I liked about this article was how he explained what enzymes do and how that allows for controlling sugar, he made a complex process easy to understand.
One thing I did not like about this review was that I didn't feel it entirely summarized the article, he did a great job analyzing the article, however I couldn't fully tell what the entire article had to say.
One interesting thing I learned was that Enzymes can be controlled, I knew what enzymes did for the body, I just didn't understand the possibilities that controlling them could do for science.
By Matt James
I thought Jimmy did a good job of writing a concise summary of the article. I thought he used his words very well, and he explained the enzymes job in glucose, which can be turned off, in a way so that anyone could understand what he was talking about, not just a person in the field. He also related it to a current topic, which is largely being discussed today, obesity. I thought that it was very important that he related this topic to a potential solution in obesity. I also thought Jimmy did a good job in including how the toggling of inhibitors could help lead to regulation in people with type two diabetes. He related the obesity topic and diabetes very well under the whole topic of enzymes that are responsible to creating starch into glucose.
I thought Jimmy did not have enough input in the last paragraph about his opinion. He did address how the article was written, but he did not really go into detail. I thought he could have improved that paragraph by including more detail. Also, I thought Jimmy could have better explained toggling. I understood the bare basics, but there was obviously a lot more to the process than what was written in this review.
Finally, I really enjoyed learning about this new process of taking away enzymes that make starch, glucose. I thought it was really interesting that our technology has become so developed that an enzyme can be detached from an overall product. It was also interesting that an inhibitor is what can separate these enzymes. Overall, I really liked this article.
-Gabriela Diaz
I think Jimmy did a nice job at summarizing this article. He made it very easy to understand and got straight to the point of the article and what scientists had discovered. He was also not to wordy which made it easy to understand and follow. I also liked how he summarized what the discovery entailed at the end of his first paragraph.
The writer did a good job summarizing the discovery. However a little more detail might have embellished his review. Details such as how it was discovered and the lab procedure used may have been nice. Also he could have added how it would help regulate diabetes, just to clarify and come full circle. Otherwise the review was fine.
One thing I learned was how this enzyme can help regulate Diabetes (type 2). I think this is extremely important and will affect thousands of lives in a positive nature.
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