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Take a virtual tour of The World of Molecular Biology to access awe-inspiring microscopy images and explore cutting-edge life science themes.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Future food: would you bite into a test-tube burger or a Petri dish steak? How do we make lab-grown meat, and what might it mean for health, farming, and the environment?
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Play the part: students take on the roles of different components of a synapse to act out synaptic transmission and learn about neurobiology.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What are slime moulds? And what do they eat for breakfast? Discover these fascinating giant microbes and explore chemotaxis and the scientific method with these slimy experiments.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
Microscope in Action is a hands-on educational resource for teaching fluorescence microscopy in the classroom and beyond
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Three key factors were required for life to develop on Earth – but which factor came first? Recent research could help settle the debate.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Not only is the fruit fly a valuable model organism, but it is also helping to put Africa on the scientific world map.
Ages: 16-19;
Paul Nurse’s failed experiment inspired a Nobel-prizewinning career.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Our genetic information is encoded in our DNA, but that is only part of the story.
Ages: not applicable;
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn,” Benjamin Franklin once said. Make that quote yours and involve your students in a real cancer-research project that will teach them more than just genetics and cell death.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
| Issue 68
Explore the world of molecular biology without leaving the classroom
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health, Resources
| Issue 63
From Petri dish to plate: the journey of cultivated meat
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society, Sustainability
| Issue 63
Hold your nerve: acting out chemical synaptic transmission
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
| Issue 62
Moving slime: exploring chemotaxis with slime mould
Topics: Biology, General science
| Issue 58
Colours in the dark: fluorescence microscopy for the classroom
Topics: Biology, Engineering, Physics, Resources
| Issue 49
Finding the recipe for life on Earth
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 41
Supporting African science: the role of fruit flies
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 40
The importance of failure: interview with Paul Nurse
Topics: Profiles
| Issue 37
Unravelling epigenetics
Topics: Inspire, Resources
| Issue 31
Cell spotting – let’s fight cancer together!
Topics: Biology
