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Sandra Porter I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).

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Chemistry & Biochemistry:

Dangerous chemistry: explosive experiments with junk food

Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry

Chemistry experiments you can do at home.

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Fun experiments for Thanksgiving

Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry

If you're not cooking today, why not experiment? Here's something fun you can do with Mentos and Diet Coke - and for those of you who think these experiments are...

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Cooking on Thanksgiving?

Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry

Our household is very excited about Thanksgiving. That's because this Thanksgiving, my husband is cooking a turkey in an egg. A big green egg. Check back later today, about 5:30...

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It's an RNA world after all

Category: Science education

Before mammals, before dinosaurs, before bacteria, or plants, there was something else; a protocell containing RNA. The Exploring Origins Project has excellent animations of protocells, a timeline of life's evolution,...

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Want to learn about genetics? Play with molecular modeling? I need volunteers

Category: molecular structures

Want to learn more about Parkinson's disease? See why a single nucleotide mutation messes up the function of a protein? I have a short activity that uses Cn3D (a molecular...

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It's elemental: Chemistry movies on YouTube

Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry

The Periodic Table of Videos from the University of Nottingham has 118 short YouTube clips about the elements. Wired Campus recommended the Sodium clip (below). I liked it, too. It's...

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The search for August

Category: molecular structures

A search for August leads to unexpected results.

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A molecule for May

Category: PubChem

APRIL was so much fun, that I thought I should find a molecule for May. I searched both the Gene database, the structure database, everywhere, without any luck. Finally, I...

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Comparing mutant and wild type structures

Category: molecular structures

How to compare mutant and normal protein structures.

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Open Access and using molecular structures in education

Category: molecular structures

I love using molecular structures as teaching tools. They're beautiful, they're easy to obtain, and working with them is fun. But working with molecular structures as an educators can present...

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