Title: 9.3.4 Stem Cell Breakthroughs
Course: ATEP - Biotechnology Module B > Section: Extended Learning Applications

Assignment:

You and your colleagues have been invited to the poster session at The World Biotechnology Congress. This event focuses on various important disciplines of biotechnology and its applications for improvement in health and quality of life the world over. Over 1000 of the world's leading scientists, researchers, industrialists and academicians, including several Nobel Laureates, in the fields of biotechnology and medical and biological sciences will attend this forum to share and discuss new scientific ideas, products and breakthroughs.

Your team will investigate a breakthrough therapy using stem cells of your choice and present a poster at the conference poster session.

Once you have chosen your therapy, your team must create a scientific poster. Review this tutorial on what will be expected.

each member of the team must upload the poster to receive a grade for this assignment.

Resources:

- http://stemcells.nih.gov/research/pages/current.aspx
- http://stemcells.nih.gov/">http://stemcells.nih.gov/
- http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/faqs.asp
- http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/stem_cell/
- http://dels-old.nas.edu/bls/stemcells/
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3302/06.html
- http://www.stemcellresearch.org
- http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/basics7.asp