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Etch a Cell – Zooniverse

In this online citizen science (OCS) project, participants analyse electron microscope images taken of a range of biological samples, helping scientists better understand cancer, infectious ...

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Myrtle Rust Reporter

Myrtle rust is a serious biosecurity threat, and help is needed to monitor its spread. This citizen science project aims to gather information on the location, hosts and intensity of this fungal ...

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Wild Sourdough

Capture wild microbes and turn them into bread – for science! This is a project you could do with your students in the classroom or they can do at home. Microbes are found in every environment on ...

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Healthy homes, healthy futures

Citizen science and the local community Rongomai Primary School is leading a Healthy Homes, Healthy Futures project. The project is part of the Participatory Science Platform (PSP) programme ...

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Preventing pig cell transplant rejection

Living Cell Technologies (LCT) encapsulates pancreatic pig cells inside a special coating before transplanting them into type 1 diabetics. This prevents them from being rejected by the patient’s ...

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Antimicrobial resistance explained

Microbes – friend or foe? Some microbes are essential to life, while others cause sickness in plants and animals, including humans. For decades, we have kept most infectious diseases under ...

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Viruses and immunity – interpreting infographics

Infographics combine text with graphic images. Their key feature is simplicity – getting a message across in a manner that is easy to visualise and understand. Infographics consist of three ...

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Game design for viruses and vaccines

Game design is a creative and innovative way to build understanding of science concepts and express them within a meaningful context. It combines aspects of science, technology, digital ...

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Drama with microbes

In this activity, students use drama to model science ideas about immune response to pathogenic microorganisms. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: explain some basic ideas ...

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Antimicrobial resistance – a context for learning

Modern antibiotic medicines came into use in the middle of the 20th century. They enabled doctors to treat serious – and sometimes fatal – bacterial infections like strep throat and pneumonia ...

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The science of superbugs – teaching antimicrobial ...

In this recorded professional learning session, Dr Siouxsie Wiles, Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine and Pathology answers key questions about antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR has been ...

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Fighting infection

Winter is coming!! And so are coughs, colds and other nasty lurgies. What is going on in our bodies? How do we get sick? How do our bodies fight these bugs? In this online PD session recorded on ...

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Meeting demand for pig cells

LCT has developed a pig cell transplant product to treat type 1 diabetes. LCT’s DIABECELL product uses islets extracted from the pancreas of 7–16 day old piglets to produce insulin in response to ...

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Antimicrobial resistance: a major health issue

In this Royal Society Te Apārangi video, microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles explains the growing health issues regarding antimicrobial resistance and what we can do to address the problem.

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How bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics

In this Royal Society Te Apārangi video, find out why antibiotics need to be used wisely to reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria throughout our community.

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Students working as scientists

Select here for the best view of this interactive timeline. It combines the Rongomai School healthy homes investigation with the nature of science.

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Processing pig cells for transplant

An overview of the process used to make a pig cell transplant treatment for type 1 diabetes.

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Quality control for processing pig cells for transplant

An overview of the quality control checks used within the process to make a pig cell transplant treatment for type 1 diabetes.

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