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Integrate key principles from biology, chemistry, and engineering with a set of experiments based on bioluminescence.
Ages: 16-19;
How have scientists been working to tackle COVID-19 during the pandemic? This interview from European XFEL gives some interesting insight.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Investigate how enzymes in your laundry detergent get rid of stains – and which are most important for keeping clothes clean.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Scalding volcanic springs are home to some remarkable microorganisms, and biotechnology is now finding uses for these microscopic survivors.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Activities you can use again and again, much like enzymes themselves.
Ages: not applicable;
Uracil is well known as one of the bases used in RNA, but why is it not used in DNA – or is it? Angéla Békési and Beáta G Vértessy investigate.
Ages: 16-19;
Dean Madden from the National Centre for Biotechnology Education (NCBE), University of Reading, UK, suggests an experiment to make lactose-free milk – useful both for cats and for the 75% of the world’s human population that are intolerant to this type of sugar.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Anna Lorenc from the Volvox project explains the importance of the enzyme urease and presents a protocol to demonstrate urease activity in the classroom.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Why are enzymes so special? How do they differ from inorganic catalysts? Isabella Marini from the University of Pisa, Italy, describes a classroom protocol to enable students to answer these questions for themselves.
Ages: 14-16;
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Bioluminescence: combining biology, chemistry, and bionics
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Engineering
| Issue 51
Pulling together: a collaborative research approach to study COVID-19
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
| Issue 46
Which laundry enzymes work best?
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 45
Some (microbes) like it hot
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 36
Energising enzyme activities
Topics: Resources
| Issue 18
Uracil in DNA: error or signal?
Topics: Biology
| Issue 10
Better milk for cats: immobilised lactase used to make lactose-reduced milk
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 9
Investigating the action of urease
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 4
Two hydrolytic enzymes and an epistemological–historical approach
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
