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    A Day in the Life of a Plant Breeder: A Role-Playing Game Integrating Plant Breeding Decisions to Downstream Market Outcomes
    Undergraduate genetics courses often have a strong molecular and mathematical focus without an applied framework illustrating downstream impacts of genetic decisions, especially within a plant...

    Keywords: active learningsystems thinkingphenotypeplant geneticsGame Based Learningplant breedingrole-playing

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    Cell Culture Best Practices: Getting Started
    These video resources show how to get started working in the lab.

    Keywords: beginnerchemical hygiene and lab safety

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    Getting Started: Drug Treatment Calculations
    This assignment will help teach students...

    Keywords: experimentMicropipettingcalculationsdrug calculation

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    Setting up PC12 Differentiation Assay Cell Block
    How to conduct a differentiation assay using PC12 cells. Complete video protocol.

    Keywords: neurobiologycourse-based research experiences (CUREs)neuorscienceCell culture-based researchPC12

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    Scratch Assay (Cell Migration) Cell Block
    A video tutorial and pedagogy notes describing how to measure cell migration using a wound/scratch assay. This is an inexpensive and relatively easy experiment. A micropublication that used this...

    Keywords: wound healingcourse-based research experiences (CUREs)Cell culture-based researchScratch AssayCell migrationCancer cell biology

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    Journal Reading: Day 1 in the Lab
    Done on the first day of lab, choose a research article or a review article related to the theme of the class.

    Keywords: Labclass projectsPC12

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    Exploring Biological Variation and the Value of Natural History Collections Using an Online Lesson
    First-year science students in large-enrollment lecture courses are rarely given opportunities to contribute to science beyond their classroom as part of their curriculum. Meanwhile, natural...

    Keywords: natural historymuseumBiodiversityalgaeherbariumseaweedcitzen science

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    Hemocytometer and Counting Cells Cell Block
    This resource describes how to count cells using a hemocytometer.

    Keywords: lab protocolcounting cells

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    Introduction to Bionomia
    This module introduces students and instructors to Bionomia, a database that highlights the collectors and identifiers of natural history specimens. It aims to foster appreciation for these...

    Keywords: ORCIDidentitynatural history collectionscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)AttributionBCEENETRepresentationWikidatahidden figuresdata democratizationrestorative practicerestorative justiceBionomia

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    Growing Lung Carcinoma and Lung Fibroblast Cell Lines
    Basic information on how to grow Lung Carcinoma and Lung Fibroblast Cell Lines.

    Keywords: tipsCell Growthcell cultureA-549HFL-1

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    How to Grow Specific Cell Lines: Liver Cancer Cell Lines (SNU-423 and Hep-G2)
    General information for growing cell lines. One is a high-grade (fast) cancer the other is a low-grade. Makes for great comparisons within a class setting.

    Keywords: tipsCell GrowthHepG2SNU-423 ATCC

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    Migration Assay Protocol
    Migration is a key property of live cells and critical for normal development, immune response, and disease processes such as cancer metastasis and inflammation.

    Keywords: migration assay

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    Assessment: When tests disagree, how do I know if I have COVID-19?
    In this activity, students learned about the immune response to infection by exploring different types of tests—PCR, antigen, and antibody tests—to detect SARS-CoV-2 viral genetic material,...

    Keywords: ImmunologyPCRCOVID19SARS-CoV-2structure and functionImmunoReachantigen-antibody interactionInformation FlowAntigen testAntibody test

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    Protein Import Into the ER: Understanding Experimental Methods for Old and New Cellular Discoveries
    Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is an effective approach for group work in STEM courses. POGIL-style lessons foster active learning because they require students to communicate and...

    Keywords: Necessary and sufficientsignal sequenceProtein SynthesistrafficER importTranslocation

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    Module 6: Specimen Prep 2 - YouTube
    Once students have pressed and dried their plant material (from Module 5), they will learn about the curatorial techniques used to create a permanent museum specimen.

    Keywords: Herbarium digitizationHerbarium specimenNotes from Nature

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    Easy Hypoxia Treatments for Cell Culture a CBEC Cell Block
    A combination of ideas we have found from various sources. These can be used in an undergraduate lab or Cell CURE.

    Keywords: hypoxia

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    Module 5: How to Collect and Press Plants in the Field
    This activity will guide students through the process of collecting fresh plant material that will be transformed into a permanent herbarium specimen. Students will make a specimen for the plant...

    Keywords: ethnobotanyherbariumHerbarium digitizationPlant pressPlant specimenGeneral Botany

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    Osmosis Through the Lens of Sexual Health
    Osmosis contributes to a range of biological phenomena, from functioning of nephrons in animals to stomatal opening and closing in plants; yet, scientifically simple ideas about osmosis are common....

    Keywords: OsmosisDiffusionsexual healthsocial and cultural embeddedness of scienceinclusive dialogue

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    X-ploring Fragile X: The Science Behind the Syndrome
    Fragile X Syndrome is an X-linked genetic disorder resulting from the impairment of transcription of the FMR1 gene, producing less to no FMRP protein. FMRP is a translational inhibitor that plays a...

    Keywords: epigeneticsgene regulationtranscriptioncentral dogmatranslationFragile X syndromeSphingosine Metabolism

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    In silico chromosome mapping: Idiograms
    This workbook allows the user to construct idiograms (haploid or diploid), map sequences onto them, depict chromosome structural mutations, and perform side-by-side comparative analyses of...

    Keywords: InheritancemutationschromosomesidiogramDrosophila melanogaster

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