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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes Published: Microbes are the world’s most brilliant chemists, able to turn simple sugars and other compounds into a vast array of complex chemicals. The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says.

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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

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About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. The need for biology students to understand math concepts has become increasingly important, especially with the digital revolution sweeping across science.

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Where Does Education Fit in an Emerging Metaverse?

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Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—is running a new TV ad showing a future in which college students slip on a lightweight VR headset to enter a lecture hall where a professor can toss 3D models of biological cells to students who can pull them apart to demonstrate some concept.

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How Students Use Unofficial Online Backchannels for Classes

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Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers. Some professors welcome these channels as a way for students to blow off steam.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses.

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ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity

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So professors have been quick to respond. At Texas State University, for instance, professors across the campus began emailing the honor code council with cries for help. “So That’s among the professors open to change, she notes: “The other prevailing mood is terror, thinking ‘This throws everything that I do into chaos.

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What Educators Should Know About the Latest in Brain Health

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On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re looking at an approach that comes out of physiology—the branch of biology that looks at how organisms function as a system. He’s James Goodwin, a professor at Loughborough University in the U.K., We talked with a biologist who focuses on what he calls the physiology of aging.

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