BMS4001 – Essential Skills for the Biosciences Sem 1 2024

Assessment Task

Write an essay on one of the following topics:

• Describe how Sars-Cov-2 causes disease and discuss the long-term effects of COVID-19.
• What are the impacts of the overuse of antibiotics on Global health?
• What is the value of using mice in the study of human diseases?
• Describe how gene therapy works and give one example of how it is successfully used for treatment of a disease by the NHS.
• Discuss the role of social media on societies attitudes to novel therapies
• Detail the causes and symptoms of diabetes mellitus. Is type 2 diabetes mellitus reversible?

Assessment Title: Data Analysis

Assessment Task

You are required to collect data in laboratory sessions and complete the assessment, which will be made available to you on Cadmus. The Data analysis will be a series of questions that will be available for you to complete as you progress through the laboratory sessions.