Health inequities are differences in health status between socially advantaged and less socially advantaged groups. These advantages are caused by systemic differences and barriers which lead to different health outcomes.
In this 2-week skills-based biotechnology unit, students will enhance their knowledge in biomanufacturing, particularly in determining impurities during drug development.
In this project, students will utilize industry-relevant data analysis skills to support their research project. Students will learn different statistical tools such as mean, standard deviation, and Student’s t-test to support their findings.
Biotechnology is the use and alteration of biological materials to make food, drugs, and other goods. Genetic engineering encompasses many different techniques for moving DNA between different organisms.
Groundbreaking cancer drug research is happening at pharmaceutical companies such as Acerta (a small pharmaceutical company owned partly by the large AstraZeneca) everyday.
The goal of this ETP is to teach students two of the basic but integral biotechnological techniques, micropipetting and gel electrophoresis. Every single experiment done at The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) uses these two techniques.
Have your students ever wondered how drugs are tested before they come to market? Or how researchers choose their clinical research participants?
In this laboratory activity, students will develop an understanding of how antigens and antibodies work while experiencing a biomedical application of those processes.