Bringing Down the Biological System: How Poisons Hack the Body

Presented at HOPE X (2014), July 20, 2014, 11 a.m. (60 minutes).

Poisons can kill... but how? Why are some chemicals beneficial in small quantities but lethal in large amounts? How does a sometimes miniscule amount of chemical bring the whole system down? And how can these processes be counteracted such that the system may survive? Learn about how the complex cellular network of our body works and what happens when this network is disrupted.

Presenters:

• Jennifer Ortiz
  Jennifer Ortiz is a pharmacist and web developer with a special interest in toxicology. She graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in electronic media arts and communication and a minor in computer science. She earned her Pharm.D. at Creighton University in 2012.

Links:

• http://x.hope.net/schedule.html#bringingdo
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE X (2014)/[HOPE X] Bringing Down the Biological System - How Poisons Hack the Body.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/HOPE X (2014)/[HOPE X] Bringing Down the Biological System - How Poisons Hack the Body.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LuFfoUTdU

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