Fanconi Anemia – Bone Marrow Drive
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NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in…
Aug 9 2011 / Read More »
Systems biology is a holistic approach to the study of how a living organism emerges from the interactions of the individual elements that make up its…
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have discovered how a key viral gene helps viruses evade early detection by the immune system. Their finding is providing…
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Food should be delicious, healthy and sustainably produced. Researchers are working on new methods to use as many parts of plants as possible for nutrition. In…
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Researchers are creating a new type of solar cell designed to self-repair like natural photosynthetic systems in plants by using carbon nanotubes and DNA, an approach…
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The emerging tidal-energy industry is spawning another in its shadow: tidal-energy monitoring. Little is known about tidal turbines’ environmental effects and environmentalists, regulators and turbine …
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Anatomy
New Method for Making Tiny Catalysts Holds Promise for Air Quality »
Fortified with iron: It’s not just for breakfast cereal anymore. University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated a simpler method of adding iron to tiny carbon spheres to create catalytic materials that…
Jan 6 2011 / Read More »
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Anatomy Blogs due Sunday 1/29 by 5:00 »
Using your notes from project presentations in class, provide at least 3 important facts from 5 different topics. …
Jan 24 2012 / Read More »Biology Blogs due by Sunday 1/19 5:00 »
Explain the steps of transcription and translation… Be exact…don’t leave out a step… …
Jan 24 2012 / Read More »Anatomy Blogs due Sunday 1/22 »
Research five nervous system conditions that you would be interested in presenting on in class. Name them and give…
Jan 18 2012 / Read More »Biology Blogs due Sunday 1/22 »
1. What is a mutation? 2. Give an example of a type of mutation. 3. Are mutations genetic…give an example? 4. Explain…
Jan 18 2012 / Read More »Biology Blogs 1/13 »
1. Why is DNA important to you? 2. Why is it important that you protect yourself from radiation from the…
Jan 12 2012 / Read More »
