Celebrating Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin is one of the most celebrated naturalists in history. Darwin is best known for his groundbreaking work, "On the Origin of Species", the book that introduced evidence for evolution through natural selection. Although the theory initially faced…

Resources and Experiments for the HOSA Biotechnology Event

A key component of the HOSA biotechnology event is development of technical skills that take your students out of the books and into the laboratory.  That is why we are happy to provide experiments and technical skills tutorials to aid in your training for…

Some Like It (Not Too) Hot: Understanding Heat and Enzyme Denaturation

Enzymes are the superheroes of the molecular world. They can catalyze reactions at rates many times faster than uncatalyzed reactions. They can be reused over and over again without being changed. (This means that a single enzyme molecule can have…