I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Organs Zone. It has scientists studying health and disease in various parts of our bodies. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Great question!
Some of you organs and tissues get stronger as you age and some get weaker. And some do both.
For example, your muscles start to get stronger almost as soon as you are born. This is why babies can’t hold their heads up when they are born, but are able to do so whey they are a toddler. Then as you use them less, they get weaker.
And Bones, also. They start soft when you are born and get nice and strong, but deteriorate with age.
Most of your organs start to get run down as you get older, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t function properly. Almost all of them are good for your whole life, luckily for us!
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It depends on the organ. Your thymus gland is really important and hence at its largest and most active when you’re born to just before adolescence; from there it actually starts to “waste away” by your early teens!
Other organs start functioning less and less the older you get
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By the time you’re thirty, you’re starting to decay….
Just kidding. Aging has a lot to do with genetics. So have a look at your grandparents and parents. They have a good clue for how you’re going to age.
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