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Ledley, Fred; Ndung'u, Eric – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
The genome projects of the past decades have created extensive databases of biological information with applications in both research and education. We describe an inquiry-based exercise that uses one such database, the National Center for Biotechnology Information Influenza Virus Resource, to advance learning about influenza. This database…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Inquiry, Microbiology, Active Learning
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Eden, Peter – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2005
Genomics profoundly affects society, because genome sequence information is widely used in such areas as genetic testing, genomic medicine/vaccine development, and so forth. Therefore, a responsibility to modernize science curricula exists for "post-genome era" educators. At my university, we developed a BS biotechnology program within a…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Science Education, Biotechnology, Curriculum Development
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Journal of College Science Teaching, 2005
An international team that includes researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has discovered that mammalian chromosomes have evolved by breaking at specific sites rather than randomly as long thought--and that many of the breakage hot spots are also involved in human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Scientists, Cancer