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Junior Editors |
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Preface |
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This book is not a typical textbook! |
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The Genetic Engineers' Pledge |
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Isolating DNA, the Blueprints of Life |
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Learning Hands-On: Breaking Cells Open & Extracting DNA |
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Step 1 Create salt water inside the resealable bag |
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Step 2 Mashing the strawberry into individual cells |
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Step 3 Breaking open the cells with soap |
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Step 4 Filtering the cell debris |
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Step 5 Precipitating the DNA |
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Evolution: It's natural for DNA to change |
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Genetic engineering: The road to precise editing of DNA |
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Atoms, molecules, and macromolecules of the cell |
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Understanding the nomenclature of DNA |
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DNA extractions in the real-world |
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Setting Up Your Genetic Engineering Hero Space |
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Do I need government approval? |
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What type of room should I set up my genetic engineering space in? |
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Equipment and materials for your Genetic Engineering Hero space |
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Cleaning and Other Supplies |
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Safety and Best Practices |
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Just because I Can, does it mean I should? |
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Virtual Bioengineer™ simulation Breakout Session 2 |
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Learning Hands-On: Growing K12 E. coli cells |
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Step 1 Download the instruction manual for the Canvas Kit |
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Step 2 Put on your gloves and lab coat |
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Step 3 Create molten LB agar powder |
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Step 5 Pour LB agar plates |
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Step 6 Use & storage of LB agar plates |
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Step 7 Streaking E. coli bacteria |
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Step 8 Incubating E. coli cells |
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Step 9 Viewing plates of grown bacteria |
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Step 10 Painting living art (bioart) with R coli bacteria |
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Step 11 Incubating E. coli cells |
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Step 12 Viewing & Preserving your bioart with a Keep-it Kit |
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Step 13 Clean-up and inactivation |
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Fundamentals: E. coli Cells |
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Introduction to "Lab" E. coli |
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A Tour of the E. coli Microfactory |
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Genetic Engineering Your E. coli Cells |
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Learning Hands-On: Transforming K12 E. coli cells with a DNA Plasmid |
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Step 1 Download the instruction manual for the Engineer-it Kit |
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Step 2 Put on your gloves and lab coat |
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Step 4 Make non-selective and selective LB agar plates |
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Step 5 Streaking E. coli and the negative control plates |
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Step 6 Making chemically competent cells |
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Step 7 Add DNA plasmids and Heat Shock |
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Step 9 Plating and incubating your cells |
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Step 10 What to expect & inactivation |
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Fundamentals: How a cell reads a DNA plasmid |
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The basic operating environment of a cell: The Four B's |
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(Bump, Bind, Burst, Bump) |
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The Three Steps to Microfacturing |
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Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) vs. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) |
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RNA polymerase: The cell machine that transcribes |
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During transcription: Direction |
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During transcription: Which DNA strand does RNA polymerase read? |
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During transcription: A secret cipher for transcribing DNA to RNA |
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What can you do with RNA? |
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Extracting your engineered proteins |
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Learning Hands-On: Culture and lyse engineered E. coli to obtain a protein product extract |
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Step 1 Download the instruction manual for the Plate Extract-it Kit |
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Step 2 Put on your gloves and lab coat |
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Step 3 Transform cells to get fresh colonies (Optional) |
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Step 4 Make selective LB agar plates for amplification |
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Step 5 Culturing: Spread out your freshly engineered cells |
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Step 6 Culturing: Incubate at 37 °C for 24-48 hours |
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Step 7 Extraction: Collect cells and start the lysis |
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Step 8 Extraction: Lyse the cells |
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Step 9 Extraction: Pellet the cell debris |
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Step 10 Extraction: Filter sterilize your proteins |
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Step 11 Using your proteins |
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Fundamentals: How cells translate proteins from RNA |
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Step two of the Three Steps to Microfacturing: Translating proteins from RNA |
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During Translation: The RNA to protein cipher |
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During Translation: Locating the starting point for translation |
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Learning Hands-On: Process one molecule into another using enzymes |
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Exercise 1 Enzymatic processing to generate smells |
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Step 1 Download the instruction manual for the Smell-it Kit |
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Step 2 Complete the engineering part of the Smell-it Kit |
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Step 3 Culture cells with the substrate |
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Step 4 Labeling and creating your LB agar plates for culturing |
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Step 5 Culture engineered cells on your selective LB agar plate |
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Exercise 2 Enzymatic processing to generate color |
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Step 1 Download the instruction manual for the Blue-it Kit |
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Step 2 Complete genetic engineering and extraction procedures |
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Step 3 Dissolve your substrates |
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Step 4 Add cell extract beta-galactosidase to the substrate |
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Fundamentals: Diving into enzymatic processing |
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The basics of enzymatic chemical reactions |
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The Four B's and enzyme function |
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Protein enzyme catalysis in cells |
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Manually turning on genes in situ |
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Learning Hands-On: Manually turning on genes in situ |
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Exercise 1 Inducing a gene using a chemical |
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Step 1 Complete the Induce-it Kit engineering exercise |
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Step 2 Culture your cells |
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Exercise 2 Inducing a gene using temperature |
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Step 1 Complete the Heat-it Kit engineering |
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Step 2 Increase the temperature |
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Exercise 3 Inducing a gene using light |
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Step 2 Turn on the light! |
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Fundamentals: Diving deeper into genetic `switches' |
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Turn on genes with chemicals |
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Turn on genes with temperature |
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Periodic table |
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