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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

BCR-ABL: Cancer Protein Structure and Function

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How do scientists discover treatments for cancer? A presentation and accompanying worksheet explain how one cancer spreads and a theory of how to stop it. It details the trials and relapses after using the medication. Scholars learn...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coffee & Chocolate: Knowing Healthy Foods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
An article relaying vital information about health and nutrition are the backbone of this lesson on eating the right foods. A series of activities are used to help upper graders understand the science supporting our understanding of what...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mountaineering: How Our Bodies Acclimatize

For Students 9th - 12th
For this mountaineering and acclimatization worksheet, students read about the changes that take place in the blood as the body acclimatizes to high altitude. They answer three critical thinking questions about acclimatization.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna Learning Center: Disease & Mutation: How Gleevec Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Chronic myeloid leukemia is a disease caused by a genetic mutation that gives rise to this abnormal protein molecule. The abnormal protein triggers the bone marrow to release dangerous numbers" of white blood cells. Gleevec, the thin...