Transcript Cockroaches could be good medicine - ms-hagen-holt-period3-4

Cockroaches could be good
medicine
Written By: Stephen Ornes
Presented By: Riley Huntington and
Daren Latimer
What is the issue?
•Simon Lee and Naveed Kahn are
two microbiologists who worked on
this study, and they both do research
at Nottingham University in the
United kingdom.
•When people get diseases such as E.
coli and MRSA scientists think they
can cure theses diseases with
cockroach brains and locust
intestines.
•Scientists recently reported on a
disgusting new idea for human
health:The ground-up brains of
cockroaches, scientists say, may help
fight infectious diseases.
•Researchers ground up different
parts of locusts and cockroaches and
put the mixtures in Petri dishes with
types of the harmful bacteria. In
dishes with the fat and muscle tissue
and blood of the insects, the bacteria
survived. Because the bacteria didn’t
die, the researchers had to keep
looking.
Where did this article show up?
•The article appeared on the home page of
"Science News for Kids" website.
Why we thought this article
would be interesting?
We thought that this article was going to be
interesting because after reading the short
summery we thought to ourselves, “How
could something as nasty as a cockroach be
used to cure peoples illnesses?” It is weird
to think that eating insects brains would
help our health. We would like to know
how many people these insect brains could
save.
•E. Coli or Escherichia coli is a bacteria that is
commonly found in the lower intestine of the
warm-blooded things.
•MRSA or Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus
aureus is a bacteria that can not be treated by
antibiotics.
•Locusts are types of grasshoppers.
The End