Bioluminescence: combining biology, chemistry, and bionics
Integrate key principles from biology, chemistry, and engineering with a set of experiments based on bioluminescence.
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Integrate key principles from biology, chemistry, and engineering with a set of experiments based on bioluminescence.
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.
Scalding volcanic springs are home to some remarkable microorganisms, and biotechnology is now finding uses for these microscopic survivors.
Activities you can use again and again, much like enzymes themselves.
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.
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.
Anna Lorenc from the Volvox project explains the importance of the enzyme urease and presents a protocol to demonstrate urease activity in the classroom.
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.
Bioluminescence: combining biology, chemistry, and bionics
Pulling together: a collaborative research approach to study COVID-19
Topics: Biology, Health, Science and society
Which laundry enzymes work best?
Some (microbes) like it hot
Energising enzyme activities
Uracil in DNA: error or signal?
Better milk for cats: immobilised lactase used to make lactose-reduced milk
Investigating the action of urease
Two hydrolytic enzymes and an epistemological–historical approach