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This website offers interactive tutorials, videos and instructional activities designed to help students explore how researchers use bioinformatic tools and biological data to make new discoveries. Tutorials include DNA Barcoding, Exploring how plants respond to drought using Microarrays, an...

This video from CUNY Kingsborough Community College describes diluting bacterial cultures. The brief demonstration is described step by step and would be easy to replicate in a laboratory setting. Running time for the video is 4:50.

This lecture from the iBioSeminars project is presented by Mary C. Berckerle from the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah and covers the identification of the focal adhesion protein, zyxin, by a lab. Recent work revealed that zyxin is down-regulated upon expression of the Ewing...

This video, published by InnovATEBIO, provides a discussion between educators on credentialing and biotechnology education. Topics explored include the Biotechnician Assistant Credentialing Exam (BACE), Covid-19, biotechnology programs, and more. The video recording runs 18:41 minutes in length.

From the University of California, Davis, Partnership for Plant Genomics Education, this biotechnology laboratory is a two-day activity using the ELISA assay, a "test that uses the immune system to detect disease," to study the epidemiology of a hypothetical small scale epidemic. The lesson gives...

This animation from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center presents DNA arrays. The animation contains information on Pat Brown's discovery and the purpose of DNA arrays to study gene expression as well as its role in the development of pharmacogenomic treatment for diseases such...

The Using DNA Barcodes to Identify and Classify Living Things laboratory demonstrates several important concepts of modern biology. During the course of this laboratory, students will collect and analyze sequence data from plants or animals or products from them, use DNA sequences to identify...

This animated video, created by Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), illustrates how DNA hybridization works in the context of nanofabrication. The animation and associated narration describe "DNA hybridization is when a single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) molecule bonds with a complementary...

This animated video, created by Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), illustrates how DNA microarrays work in the context of nanofabrication. The animation and associated narration describe "how a DNA microarray identifies complementary DNA (cDNA) strands from a sample. On the substrate...

In this video, created by Support Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), viewers are introduced to the concept of DNA microarray fabrication. Specific topics include: non-contact printing process, photolithography process and maskless photolithography process. This is the third in a series of...