You already know that medicines like antibiotics and aspirin can make you feel
better when you are sick, but how do researchers find new medicines? Do
medications work the same way for everyone? How can we use medicine to treat
genetic diseases? Discover the answers to these questions and more by trying one of the medical biotechnology science projects in our collection.
The human kidney is the most commonly transplanted organ in the United States, numbering more than 17,000 transplants in 2010 alone! But kidney transplantation technology faces a lot of challenges, including a shortage of kidney donors and the need for recipients to take immunosuppressant drugs to keep their bodies from rejecting a transplanted kidney. In this science project, with the help of bioinformatics databases, you will explore how a kidney could be bioengineered using stem cells,…
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Time Required
Short (2-5 days)
Prerequisites
An advanced biology course or equivalent understanding of how cells respond to environmental stimuli and signaling pathways.
