Laura O'Dell
Middle school science teacher
CA

Thank you so much! I'll keep looking into those activities. The reason I ask is that I've been working at Caltech with their educational outreach program. I'm developing lessons for the middle school level based on the work of the lab I am assigned to. The most recent finding is growing protein hydrogels in vitro via plasmids in E. coli. Since the goal of the program is to bring the most curre...

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Hello,  I am currently developing a unit that connects life science and engineering. The topic I found that connects the two is how scientists use plasmids to engineer protein. It'd going to be a part of a unit on learning about protein as a biomolecule. What I am searching for is an activity/investigation to either model or demonstrate how plasmids are used, in very general terms, as tiny fact...

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