Takin' it to the streets. (Short Stuff).What if science class came on wheels? Traveling all over the land, bringing instruction, education teachers! Sound scary? Well, staffers at the Boston University School of Medicine Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. It is an American medical school located in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. thought the idea was pretty great and so MobileLab was born. The lab has taken to the streets to teach science to more than 20,000 Boston area middle and high school students. It's not only a bus but a self-contained molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller laboratory. In it, up t 24 students and their teacher, enter the wonderful world of laboratory investigating...and it's cool enough to make us all want to become science whizzes! Experiments are linked to real-life sitches and presented as mysteries. So, to crack. The Mystery of the Crooked Cell, young biologists use processes like DNA fingerprinting DNA fingerprinting or DNA profiling, any of several similar techniques for analyzing and comparing DNA from separate sources, used especially in law enforcement to identify suspects from hair, blood, semen, or other biological materials found at to identify sickle cell anemia sickle cell anemia n. A chronic, usually fatal inherited form of anemia marked by crescent-shaped red blood cells, occurring almost exclusively in Blacks, and characterized by fever, leg ulcers, jaundice, and episodic pain in the joints. . The bus is packed with science gear, including video cams, bio-freezers and anything else you future scientists could need. The venture has been so successful that some states are following in MobileLab's tracks. Universit y of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. at Chapel Hill has a science lab roaming the streets and, in the works, are a BioBus in Connecticut and Maryland's MdBioLab. |
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