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    Happy Blue Baby: MCQs for large classes
    Multiple choice questions for the Happy Blue Baby case study pre-work

    Keywords: mutationHemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysisPDBMolecular Case Study

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    Nicholas' Story
    This 3 part case on sickle cell disease focuses on visualizing and understanding the molecular basis of its cause, symptoms, complications, management, treatment, and possible cures.

    Keywords: Hemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysissickle cell diseasePDBMolecular Case Study

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    Nicholas' Story
    This 3 part case on sickle cell disease focuses on visualizing and understanding the molecular basis of its cause, symptoms, complications, management, treatment, and possible cures.

    Keywords: Hemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysissickle cell diseasePDBMolecular Case Study

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    COVID-19: On the way to a vaccine
    This multi-part case study introduces the reader to the SARS-CoV-2 virus origins, the molecular basis of the infection, the development and severity of symptoms, and treatment.

    Keywords: BLASTprotein structure modelingmolecular visualization and analysisCOVID19PDB

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    Molecular Basis of Sickle Cell Disease
    This multi part case on hemoglobin structure as it relates to oxygen binding and sickle cell disease focuses on utilizing bioinformatics and molecular visualization tools to learn about the sickle...

    Keywords: Hemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysisintroductory bioinformaticssickle cell diseasePDBMolecular Case Studyoxygen bindingmyoglobinmolecular literacy3D protein structuresstructural representations

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    Happy Blue Baby
    This case, about a specific mutant of hemoglobin, focuses on visualizing and understanding the molecular basis of why an infant turned blue soon after birth and how the cyanosis resolved on its own...

    Keywords: mutationHemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysisPDBMolecular Case Study

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    Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine
    This multi-part case study introduces the reader to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, replication, and treatment. Additional worksheets introduce students to bioinformatics tools of 3-D protein visualization...

    Keywords: BLASTprotein structure modelingmolecular visualization and analysisCOVID19PDB

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    COVID-19: Molecular Basis of Infection-ADAPTATION
    This case was written in Spring 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on understanding the structure and interaction of the SARS-Cov-2 viral spike protein that facilitates infection in...

    Keywords: infectionvaccinemolecular visualization and analysisCOVID19PDBSARS-CoVMolecular Case Study

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    COVID-19: Molecular Basis of Infection
    This case was written in Spring 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on understanding the structure and interaction of the SARS-Cov-2 viral spike protein that facilitates infection in...

    Keywords: infectionvaccinemolecular visualization and analysisCOVID19PDBSARS-CoVMolecular Case Study

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    Piwi Matters
    This case focuses on understanding structure and function relationships in Piwi, a protein that is critical for germline stem cell function and development of eggs in the fruit fly ovary.

    Keywords: Stem cellsmolecular visualization and analysis3D protein structure /function analysisPiwiPDBMolecular Case Study

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    Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine - Ethics supplement
    The adaptation to Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine entails two ethics supplements. The first supplement addresses the use of off-label drugs in the pandemic (or other situation)....

    Keywords: bioethicsBLASTprotein structure modelingmolecular visualization and analysisethicsCOVID19PDB

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    CRISPR Gene Editing: Designing the gRNA and Donor Template
    In this adaptation, students learn how CRISPR/Cas9 is used in bacterial immunity and gene editing. Students create both a gRNA target and a donor template to edit a gene. Mutations can be from the...

    Keywords: geneticseducationcell biologymolecular biologymutationStem cellsstructure-functionmolecular visualization and analysis3D protein structure /function analysisCRISPR/Cas9crisprDNA mutationPiwiPDBMolecular Case StudyPiwi Matters

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    Molecular CaseNet - Developing Intro Tutorials - YouTube
    Biome Institute 2020, Summary Video

    Keywords: introductory biologyMolecular structuremolecular visualizationMolecular Case Study

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    Molecular CaseNet - Students Writing Cases - YouTube
    Biome Institute 2020, Summary Video

    Keywords: assessmentcase study creationMolecular structuremolecular visualizationMolecular Case Study

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    Waking up Anna - Adaptations and Conversion to Mol*
    This case focuses on understanding the molecular basis of Anna's sleeping disorder and its treatment. The adaptations addressed question clarity and reformatting to use Mol*.

    Keywords: sleepmolecular visualization and analysisPDBMolecular Case StudyGABAMolCaseNetMol*MolStarProtein visualizationFlumazenil

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    COVID-19: Molecular Basis Infection Revisited One Year into the Pandemic
    This adaptation was written in Spring 2021 exactly one year after the original case and includes explorations of the emerging mutations within the spike protein

    Keywords: infectionvaccinemolecular visualization and analysisCOVID19PDBSARS-CoVMolecular Case Studyvariantsantibody

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    The Happy Blue Baby Hemoglobin
    This case, about a specific mutant of hemoglobin, focuses on visualizing and understanding the molecular basis of why an infant turned blue soon after birth and how the cyanosis resolved.

    Keywords: mutationHemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysisPDBMolecular Case Study

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    A Case of Severe Insulin Resistance
    This case focuses on understanding how a mutation in a cell signalling protein (a kinase) can prevent insulin function and lead to diabetes.

    Keywords: molecular visualization and analysisPDBMolecular Case Studyinsulin resistance

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    Happy Blue Baby
    This case, about a specific mutant of hemoglobin, focuses on visualizing and understanding the molecular basis of why an infant turned blue soon after birth and how the cyanosis resolved on its own...

    Keywords: mutationHemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysisgenetic basisPDBMolecular Case StudyMol*

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    Waking up Anna
    This case focuses on understanding the molecular basis of Anna's sleeping disorder and its treatment.

    Keywords: sleepmolecular visualization and analysisPDBMolecular Case StudyGABA

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