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French biology teacher Jean-Yves Guichot explains his project to link secondary-school students with molecular biology researchers.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
We’ve all heard that an antioxidant-rich diet is healthy. Together with his students, Gianluca Farusi compared the antioxidant levels in a range of foods and drinks.
Ages: 16-19;
Giuseppe Zaccai from the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, describes how he and his co-workers have uncovered a way to explore water dynamics in the cell interior using neutron scattering and isotope labelling.
Ages: 16-19;
Anastasios Koutsos, Alexandra Manaia, and Julia Willingale-Theune bring a sophisticated molecular biology technique into the classroom.
Ages: 16-19;
Leroy Hood talks to Marlene Rau, Anna-Lynn Wegener and Sonia Furtado about his long-standing commitment to innovative science teaching, and how he came to be known as the father of systems biology.
Ages: 16-19;
From jellyfish to arsenic detectors via a Nobel Prize: Sonia Furtado reports on the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, and interviews scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, about its applications.
Ages: 16-19;
Dominique Cornuéjols from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility introduces us to the world of crystallography. It’s not all shiny diamonds…
Ages: 16-19;
Systems biology is one of the fastest growing fields in the life sciences. But what is it all about? And does it have a place in the classroom? Les Grivell from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in Heidelberg, Germany, investigates.
Ages: 16-19;
Beat Blattmann and Patrick Sticher from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, explain the science behind protein crystallography and provide a protocol for growing your own crystals from protein – an essential method used by scientists to determine protein structures.
Ages: 16-19;
Catching the influenza virus can be more than just a nuisance: these pathogens have caused the most deadly pandemic in recent history. Claire Ainsworth investigates how scientists are working to prevent it happening again.
Ages: 16-19;
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The Bio Academy
Topics: Biology
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Looking for antioxidant food
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
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The intracellular environment: not so muddy waters
Topics: Physics, General science, Biology, Chemistry, Science and society
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Fishing for genes: DNA microarrays in the classroom
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society, General science
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New approaches to old systems: interview with Leroy Hood
Topics: Biology, General science, Science and society
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Painting life green: GFP
Topics: Biology, General science, Science and society
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Biological crystals: at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
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Systems biology in the classroom?
Topics: Biology
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Growing crystals from protein
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
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Outmanoeuvering influenza’s tricks
Topics: Biology
