Week of January 2nd
Agenda:

• Activity 3.1.3: When cells lose control
• Immuno-staining wild type and cancer cells
• Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_QIZCqKfoMBXO1F780Px9Oow5W3g-QK2/view?usp=sharing
• Mounting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3KreOPRcao

Part I: Normal Cells Versus Cancer Cells

General Overview of Cancer

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/how-cancer-starts/cancer-cells

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/what-is-cancer/how-cancer-starts/cancer-cells (Links to an external site.)

For P53 and Oncogenes:  

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/p53-gene-and-cancer

Metastasis:  
https://www.dnalc.org/view/15536-Cell-division-tumor-growth-and-metastasis-3D-animation-with-basic-narration.html

Dec. 4th, 2018
Agenda:

• Activity 2.2.1: Gene Therapy
• Socratic Seminar Thursday

Useful Links:

•  Gene therapy main link

 (Links to an external site.)

• Playing Space Doctor   

• Must Read with your NEWS graphic organizer

Part II: Debating Gene Therapy:  

Against the use of gene therapy.

• The New York Times – Patient Dies During a Trial of Therapy Using Genesh ttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E06EED8173EF93AA1575AC0A96F958260 (Links to an external site.)
• Fox News – Boy Living in Bubble Develops Leukemia From Experimental Therapyhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317225,00.html (Links to an external site.)
• BBC News Magazine – Gene Doping: Sport’s Biggest Battle?http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25687002 (Links to an external site.)  
• The New York Times – 2nd Cancer is Attributed to Gene Used in FDA Testhttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E7DB1F31F934A25752C0A9659C8B63 (Links to an external site.)
• ABC News – Patient Death Latest Setback for Gene Therapyhttp://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=3421869&page=1 (Links to an external site.)
• The New York Times – Trials are Halted on a Gene Therapyhttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E7D9163BF937A35753C1A9649C8B63 (Links to an external site.)

In favor of gene therapy: 

• Biology News Net – Gene Therapy Shows Promise as Weapon Against HIVhttp://www.biologynews.net/archives/2009/02/23/gene_therapy_shows_promise_as_weapon_against_hiv.html (Links to an external site.)
• New Scientist - Gene Therapy Cures “Bubble Boy”http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2124-gene-therapy-cures-bubble-boy.html (Links to an external site.)
• The New York Times – More Than Humanhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/books/chapters/0703-1st-naam.html (Links to an external site.)
• New Scientist – Gene Therapy is First Deafness ‘Cure’http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7003 (Links to an external site.)
• Stanford University Medical Center – Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy Fixes Frail Muscle Cells in Animal Model http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/sumc-gtf122205.php (Links to an external site.)
• USA Today – Gene Therapy Experiments Improve Vision in Nearly Blindhttp://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-04-28-3714044875_x.htm (Links to an external site.)

Nov. 30th,  2017

 Agenda

• Activity 3.1.2: X-ray vision
• Staining cancer cells next week

Resource links:

• Human Anatomy Online: Broken Bones and Fractures http://www.innerbody.com/image/skel06.html (Links to an external site.)
• WebMD: Understanding Fractures http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/understanding-fractures-basic-information

Mount Tabor Article

Mount Hood Article

Mount Everest - see handout

Monday Nov. 26th, 2018

Agenda:

• Activity 2.3.1: Cochlear Implant Debate
• Diagram on how Cochlear Implants work
• Good things happening at Galludet University
• THE COCHLEAR CONTROVERSY

Activity 1.3.2 Links:  Must Read, **Strongly Suggested YOU MUST PICK TWO!  

• MUST READ: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wellbeing/health-advice/not-all-deaf-people-want-to-be-fixed/

• **Article #1: For some who lost their implant help- nytimes  (more pro)

• **Article #2 Galludet reflects changes in deaf culture (mixed pro/con) 

• *Article #3: cochlear controversy dramatized in sound (mixed pro/con)

• *Article #4: Turmoil at college for deaf sparks broader debate -nytimes (mixed pro/con)

Videos on Cochlear Implants:

• How Cochlear Implants Work: 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojx9M2vpcAU 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDuhtB26e7A

• Adult CI activation I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMiThxiYH6U

• Adult CI activation II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTKMJ-El0sA

• Sound and Fury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvvDf4RUtc8

Vaccines 1.4.2:

Part I:

Visit the NOVA Making Vaccines site:    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/meningitis/vaccines.html. Complete the Making Vaccines activity. Take notes on the six different methods for producing vaccines. For each type of vaccine make sure to describe the steps involved in the development of the vaccine, summarized in no more than four steps, as well as include an example of a vaccine produced by each method.

Part II: Recombinant DNA Technology

Now that you have researched the types of vaccine preparations, you will simulate the production of a vaccine through recombinant DNA technology.

1.    Open your laboratory journal to the drawing of a bacterial cell you created in Lesson 1.2 and review the way in which bacteria store genetic information.

2.    Answer Conclusion question 3-4.

3.    Visit the Dolan DNA Learning Center DNA Interactive site at http://www.dnai.org/b/index.html.