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Fed up with explaining genomes, genes and proteins? Why not get your students to figure it out for themselves using Johan Leveau’s DNA puzzle?
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Did witches once soar through the night sky on broomsticks? Or were they hallucinating after eating or touching certain plants? Angelika Börsch-Haubold explains how modern pharmacology helps us to understand the action of many toxic plants – some of which are still used in medicine.
Ages: 16-19;
Could spider silk be the answer to medical and military challenges? Giovanna Cicognani from the Institut Laue-Langevin and Montserrat Capellas from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France, investigate Christian Riekel and Tilo Seydel’s research into this remarkable material.
Ages: 16-19;
Teaching science in the classroom is all very well, but wouldn’t it be wonderful to let your students learn for themselves what it’s really like to work in a research laboratory? Sooike Stoops from the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium, describes a project that does just…
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Is it acceptable to use human embryonic stem cells in research? What about live animals? Professor Nadia Rosenthal, head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Monterotondo, Italy, talks to Russ Hodge about the ethics of her research.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Alexandre Lewalle from King’s College, London, UK, pushes back the frontiers of our knowledge of motors – at the molecular level.
Ages: 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;
We are relative newcomers on Earth and still have a lot to learn. Julian Vincent from the University of Bath, UK, investigates some of the lessons we can learn from the living world.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Russ Hodge from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, reports on the first complete survey of 'molecular machines' in yeast.
Ages: 16-19;
When we sleep, are we just passively recovering from a hard day, or is there something more going on? Angelika Börsch-Haubold considers the implications of some intriguing research – was her grandmother right all along? Test the scientists’ conclusions for yourself!
Ages: 16-19;
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Fun with genomes: the Mycomuncher DNA Puzzle
Topics: Biology
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Plant hallucinogens as magical medicines
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Silken, stretchy and stronger than steel!
Topics: Physics, Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 4
Scientists@work
Topics: Biology, General science
| Issue 4
Ethics in research
Topics: Biology
| Issue 4
How do muscles produce work? Using optical tweezers to study molecular machines
Topics: Physics, Biology
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Two hydrolytic enzymes and an epistemological–historical approach
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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Is traditional engineering the right system with which to manipulate our world?
Topics: Physics, Biology
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The yeast proteome: retooling the factory floor
Topics: Biology
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Sleep and learning
Topics: Biology
