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Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards.
"Biotechnology is a rapidly growing field that uses research tools from biology and chemistry to find solutions to current scientific problems. Some biotechnology professionals look for the genetic basis of disease or factors that affect lifespan. Others focus on solving food shortages, the climate crisis, or criminal investigations.
These resources explore common laboratory techniques used for treating disease and improving diagnosis, and examine the ethical debate over such research. Career profiles demonstrate the multifaceted nature of biotechnology jobs and the wide range of opportunities in this field. "
This is the web seminar page on the NSTA Learning Center website for Teaching Biotechnology. You will find the powerpoint presentation and link to the archive of the recorded web seminar session
"This video produced for Teachers' Domain profiles Karmella Haynes, a post-doctoral researcher working in the emerging field of synthetic biology. Karmella explains how she uses biotechnology to build living machines, or devices, from genes. She then puts these devices into the cells of living things and studies the results. Haynes hopes that one day the devices she's working on will carry out complicated functions in human bodies, such as curing a disease. The video demonstrates how Karmella is using synthetic biology to detect cancer cells before they spread.
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Interactives and online community for DNA resources
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Resources from the NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar, Teaching Biotechnology: New Tools and Resources for the STEM Career Pipeline from WGBH Teachers' Domain, February 17, 2010
Updated on 2010-02-18
Created on 2010-02-17
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on 2010-02-17
