Britton Nelson

Dear Past Self, This semester has been awesome. I know you will really enjoy it. You will learn a lot of useful things that will help you in your future studies for medical school. Although we did not spend a lot of time studying the endocrine system, we did learn a lot of other things that were interesting. I loved… Read more →

Acute Myeloid Leukemia   In this paper, I will be discussing the study of certain drugs and there effect on the cancer Acute Myeloid Leukemia. AML is the most common type of leukemia. Leukemia is when bone marrow makes an abnormal type of white blood cell. This is usually caused by a mutated protein of p53 and CK1a. While researching… Read more →

Induced Hypothermia for Meningitis Patients When I was working in the emergency department as a scribe over the summer my doctor and I encountered a patient who later is diagnosed with acute bacterial meningitis. At the time I did not know how serious this was until my doctor told me that we may have been exposed to the diseases. Luckily,… Read more →

Hi, my name is Britton Nelson. I’m a student at Old Dominion University and my major is Biochemistry.  Before I started studying at ODU I was in the Navy for 8 years, and four of those years I served on the fast-attack submarine USS-Helena as a Sonar Technician. After graduation, I plan to either move onto medical school or pharmacy school. Read more →

Dear Future Self I’m sure you have had a difficult semester. Even though this will have probably been hard semester, I know that you will have worked extremely hard, and still have a high GPA. I am writing to remind you what you are most interested in studying in Biology. We know that we eventually want to go to medical… Read more →