Live from the Classroom! EDVO-Kit #123 Nucleic Acid Testing for COVID-19

This is a guest post from Mr. Jeffrey Wells, a biomedical sciences & physics teacher at Lancaster High School, OH. Follow him on Twitter. Over the course of the past two years, COVID-19 has dominated our daily lives. Students often…

Jazz up your lab reports with scientific illustration and videos!

An important part of the scientific process is analyzing and communicating the results of your experiments. Most researchers will share their results in the form of journal articles, complete with figures and illustrations. In the classroom, students will complete a…

Exploring the Genetics of Taste: PTC PCR Perfection

SNP analysis of the PTC gene using the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is one of my favorite ways to demonstrate the link between genotype and phenotype in the classroom laboratory. This wonderful experiment involves the isolation of human DNA from…