Jack Baxter
Forensics
Current Event
3/19/18
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
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For my current event article, I decided to read and analyze the article “Gene expression
patterns may help determine time of death,” from the online news source Science
Daily. The article discusses the discovery in which scientists can see the time of
death of an individual by examining the changed gene expressions. The scientists
involved are able to examine tissue samples from the deceased and determine the
time of death of said individual with strikingly good accuracy. The study is being
led by Roderic Guigó at the Center for Genomic Regulation. The study led the
researchers involved to use the GTEx system. The GTEx system is one that,
“aimed at creating a reference database and tissue bank for scientists to study how
genomic variants affect gene activity and disease susceptibility.” The GTEx was
useful as it provided the scientists involved with reference samples. Roderic
Guigó and his team were able to find out about the change in gene expression after
death by thoroughly examining RNA-sequencing data from approximately 7,000
samples. “We found that many genes change expression over relatively short
post-mortem intervals, in a largely tissue specific manner. This information
helps us to better understand variation and also it allows us to identify the
transcriptional events triggered by death in an organism,” mentioned Pedro G.
Ferreira, a scientist working on the study.
Considering the fact that this article concerns the study of determining the exact
time of death, it is very important to the world of forensic science. If the method
is perfected and dispersed among law enforcement institutions across the world,
then the processes of determining the time of death will become much easier. This
can lead to quicker arrests and more trustworthy evidence to be offered during court
trials. It would also surely lead to a safer world as arrests would be much more
definite and conclusive. Despite this, it is evident that the system still has a long
way to go before it will be properly introduced into the world of forensic investigation.
Overall, I believe that the article “Gene expression patterns may help determine
time of death,” from the online news source Science Daily was extremely well
written and equally informative. The authors were able to describe the complicated
and advanced system developed while relating back to it’s uses and how it could
deeply change the world of forensic science. The authors go into amazing detail
surrounding the exact functions and why the system needs further development
before it will be properly introduced into the world of forensic science. In an effort
to improve the article, the authors should have supplied the reader with more
information concerning how the process literally works. It would have been
interesting to know when exactly the researchers estimate the system will be
introduced after further testing and trials. The authors could have also further
improved the article by describing the ideas behind the creation of the process
and how, exactly, it came to be.
11 comments:
Griffin Gelinas
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Jack’s review of “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death,” is one of the most interesting articles that I have read all year. The article discusses the discovery in which scientists can see the time of death of an individual by examining the changed gene expressions. The scientists involved are able to examine tissue samples from the deceased and determine the time of death of said individual with strikingly good accuracy. A huge breakthrough for forensic science, this case itself is a very big deal.
I would say that this article being as interesting as it is, Jack really did a great job with this review. He included a lot of information from experts like, “We found that many genes change expression over relatively short post-mortem intervals, in a largely tissue specific manner. This information helps us to better understand variation and also it allows us to identify the transcriptional events triggered by death in an organism.” I would say that I would have liked to hear more about your stance on the whole ordeal. Besides that a great review.
I learned a lot from this review. What these current events always teach me is that our technology is evolving so much that we must make sure people stay engaged in these studies. Learning new information like this is vital to the class we take. I look forward to current events like these because I can take something away from them.
Isabella Dibbini
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
April 25, 2018
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
Jack wrote an excellent review of the article “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death,” from the online news source Science Daily. Jack developed an accurate summary of this article. In addition, he incorporated lots of details and statistical evidence to support his claims. For instance, he quotes Pedro G. Ferreira when he states “We found that many genes change expression over relatively short post-mortem intervals, in a largely tissue specific manner. This information helps us to better understand variation and also it allows us to identify the transcriptional events triggered by death in an organism.” Lastly, he included evidence from the article to support his arguments.
Jack wrote a very good review on this article, however, they are a few things in which should could improve. To start with, I wish Jack incorporated more quotes from the article into his review. Also, if Jack wanted to take his review to the next level, he could include outside research, which would also make his review more interesting.
By reading his review on the article “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death,” from the online news source Science Daily, I expanded my knowledge on forensic science. Prior to reading this review, I was unaware of this topic. Overall, Jack’s review is very good and shows a great understanding of this article.
Lily Monahan
Mr. Ippolito
Forensics
April 25, 2018
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
Jack Baxter reviewed the article “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death,” I thought the article review was comprehensive and well written, which made it easy to understand. His summary was also very detailed, and his quote in the beginning was a good way to start the review.
Jack could have included more quotes from the article into his review, and possibly have done some outside research to create a clearer picture of the article.
I thought Jacks review was interesting to read because it went into detail on interesting forensic practices, and its clear he really understood the article.
Alexander Plaza
Mr.Ippolito
4/26/18
Forensics Comment
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180213132941.htm
Jack, I read your review of "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death." by the Center for Genomic Regulation and I thought that you did a decent job. I thought that you did a decent job with making your summary of the article brief yet informative. I was not confused about your topic. This is good for the readers since it creates a understanding of the subject matter for your review. Also, I like that your analysis is relevant to society today. Finally, I that you include some expert quotes from the article. It is useful in understanding the article.
Although your article was good, there are some things that you could improve on. First, I think you could elaborate on how this development can help the Forensic Science field. Also, I believe that you could look at some grammatical and formatting errors, which could make your article easier to read.
Overall, I enjoyed your review. It’s interesting to see gene expression being applied to use in Forensic Science.
Hayley Berry
Mr. Ippolito
April 26, 2018
Current Event 23
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
For this current event, I decided to read a review of the article “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death." by Jack Baxter. This review was very interesting and well written. One thing that I thought he did a great job on was putting a lot of detail into the review. This helped explain what the article was really about. Another thing that I thought Jack did well on was adding the quote. It really helps when you are reading because you get to see how the author writes and how it is different then the person who is writing. Lastly, I thought Jack choose a very good topic to connect it to. I do think as well it would be good to have this in the world of Forensic Investigation and I agree that it has a long way before it can be integrated.
Although this article review was very well written and had a lot of detail I thought that Jack could have chosen a better article to review. Even though this article was interesting, we really have not touched genetics that much in our forensic class. It could have been better for a Bio current event. Another thing that I thought he could have done better on was giving more background to some of the experiments that had to do with the genetics.
Overall, I thought that this review was very good. It was well written and it had a lot of detail combined in it. One thing that I learned that was very interesting to me was that investigators and determine the time of death by tissue samples of the dead person. This was very interesting because I thought that it was just looking at the stages of decaying and not something to do with tissue samples. Overall I learned a lot from this article that Jack review.
Lucy Rizzo
April 27, 2018
Forensics
Current Event 23
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
For this week’s current event I read Jack Baxters review on the Science Daily article “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death” I thought that Jack did a very good job on his current event. It was extremely well written and very easy to follow. Jack included an immense amount of detail and direct quotes which really brought his writing to life. I also thought that Jack did a good job of keeping the reader intrigued and interested in the topic.
To improve his summary I think that Jack could have included more information on how this affects the forensics field. I also think that Jack could have included outside research on forensics involvement to bring his article to the next level.
Overall I thought that Jack did a great job. I learned a lot from his article and thought he did a great job presenting it to the reader.
YiFei Wu
Mr. Ippolito
April 26, 2018
Current Event 23
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180213132941.htm
For this current Forensics related Events, I read “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death." by Jack Baxter. Jack’s review on this article is very interesting and good. First of all, I think he did a great job on was putting a lot of detail into the review. This helped explain what the article was really about. Second, that I think Jack did a great job for adding quotes from the original article, such as “aimed at creating a reference database and tissue bank for scientists to study how genomic variants affect gene activity and disease susceptibility”. It helps the audiences to understand more about his point as well as the explanation for the gene technology. Third, I think Jack choose an interesting but well-related topic to comment on. It is very interesting and we could use that for further research.
Even though Jack’s article comment is very well written and had a lot of details, I think Jack can give the audiences more background information. Then we can understand the whole process easier. Second, I think Jack can include some outside research to make his comment more interesting to read.
Overall, I think that Jack’s review is very good. It was well written and it have lots of details in it. In this article, I learned that those investigators can actually take dead people’s tissue and examine it in order to know the time of death occurred. I learned a lot in this article and I think that this forensics technology can be used in future as well as in real life.
Hana Eddib 4/29/18
Forensics current event 22
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180213132941.htm
Jack’s review of his article was very well written. He did a very good job of providing enough details in his summary so that we could understand the article. I also appreciated that she included a quote in her article to help give us a direct point of view on how the gene patterns work. I appreciated that he included his opinion that it might take awhile for this to be integrated into forensics because I think it was a good reminder for readers.
Even though Jack did a great job, there were two areas in which he could improve. The first being I wish he would have included some more background on genetics because even though it is a good topic for forensics, we haven’t actually touched upon it within our class. I also wish he could’ve included what he thought would be another alternative to this system to help determine time of death for the moment, considering he did point out it isn’t ready to be used in the field yet.
Overall Jack did a great job and I was very interested to learn about how we can use genes to further our sophistication of forensic examinations.
Kelsey Ravesloot
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180213132941.htm
Jack Baxter wrote a review on “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death". I thought that this review was very well written. One thing I thought Jack really did a good job with was using quotes to bring in direct facts from the article. I also liked how he stated his opinion on the article and the topic as a whole. Lastly, I thought Jack did a good job at keeping the reader interested in the topic.
Although I thought Jack did a great job, I have to write ideas that can help improve the review. One thing that I wish I saw more details about the background of this topic and the article. I also wish he went into more detail about how this relates to Forensic Science specifically.
Overall I enjoyed reading Jack’s review. I learned more about Gene expression patterns by reading this review.
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180213132941.htm
I read his review of "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death." by the Center for Genomic Regulation and I thought that he did a decent job. I thought that he did a decent job with making your summary of the article brief yet informative. I was not confused about his topic. This is good for the readers since it creates a understanding of the subject matter for your review. Also, I like that his analysis is relevant to society today. Finally, I that he included some expert quotes from the article. It is useful in understanding the article.
Although his review was good, there are some things that he could have improve on. First, I think he could elaborate on how this development can help the Forensic Science field. Also, I believe that he could look at some grammatical and formatting errors, which could make his article easier to read.
Overall, I enjoyed his review. It’s interesting to see gene expression being applied to use in Forensic Science.
Gordon Hoffman
4/29/18
Forensics
Current Event 23
Center for Genomic Regulation. "Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 February 2018.
Overall I really liked Jack’s review of the Science Daily article “Gene expression patterns may help determine time of death” and I thought he did a good job. He had a lot of detail and his inclusion of quotes really helped the reader get a better idea of what he was talking about. I thought the summary was short but well done and got the point across. I also liked that the topic was very relevant in today’s society and has real world applications. It would have been nice if Jack included how this impacts the forensic world and our class. Jack also could have included some outside information to make the review even better. Overall I thought Jack did a good job with his review and I learned more about how investigators can actually take dead people’s tissue and examine to determine things about the person’s death and also how forensic technology has a lot of real world applications.
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