Compendium

Tag: genetics

  • Patient HeLa – PBL Case

    Patient HeLa – PBL Case

    In January, 1951 Henrietta Lacks was referred by her doctor to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, because she suffered from abnormal bleedings between her regular menstrual cycles. The gynecologist Howard Jones, working at the hospital, discovered a small tumor of purple color on her cervix. Mary Kubicek was successful in establishing an immortal cell line…

  • Patient Frederic – PBL Case

    Patient Frederic – PBL Case

    You are a physician. It’s November and one day a patient, Frederic Cave, shows up in your open office hours and asks for your advice. He didn’t bring a health history and since it’s the first time you meet the patient, you ask him about it. Cave is 42 years old, not married, but lives…

  • Cystic Fibrosis – PBL Case

    Cystic Fibrosis – PBL Case

    This PBL case explores biomedical aspects of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease stemming from a deregulation of ion reuptake into the cell.