The biotech industry is ramping up production. In some states, like North Carolina, companies are talking about hiring 100's of people, and maybe as many as 5000, total. On the one hand, this is great news for the industry and for biotech education programs. On the other hand, for biotech ...
There is A LOT of information out there about COVID-19....and not all of it is accurate. And even the accurate information can be overwhelming! The Pennsylvania State University has constructed an introductory course that takes that information and breaks it down into three modules: Virology, Epidemiology, and Public Health Preparedness ...
This article was written and contributed by Lisa Proulx, Public Information Officer, Great Bay Community College The Life Sciences Department of Great Bay Community College offers programs in three specialized areas in Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. Information is available at https://www.greatbay.edu/life-sciences/ Great Bay Community College is part of the ...
Article contributed by Dr. Shelly Thai, Glendale Community College, CA, and Andreh Fiterz, PerkinElmer, Photo credit: Ken Allard/El Vaquero News From Dr. Thai: I'm a Biology faculty at Glendale Community College in California. A few years ago, I developed a research course, Biology 298 - Undergraduate Research in Microbiology and ...
Please note: This article was written by Eric Devlin, Montgomery County Community College. Mr. Devlin also contributed the photos. The photos and text in this article are used with his permission. Montgomery County Community College Biotechnology Program alumni are among the researchers on the front line against the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Please note: This article was written by Valencia College. The photos and text in this article are used with permission from Valencia College, Florida. From the moment Naia Kasik walks through the doors of Applied Ingenuity Diagnostics, she knows exactly what she has to do as she comes face-to-face with ...
During the Spring semester of 2020 colleges and universities were forced to transition to remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The unexpected transition left many faculty members searching for resources on how to deliver biotechnology courses in a distance learning format. In response, InnovATE BIO coordinated and delivered a ...
This morning I noticed the following article and thought I would share it with you --this update by Pharmaceutical Technology Editors-- is an update on one of the vaccines being developed. There are several more that also show promise. I encourage people to keep up with the news on vaccines ...
I have always been excited to work in Biotech, I think it is the most exciting field of science around—a field that can help improve not only the human condition but more universally improve the condition of the entire world. And now the biotech stakes are higher than they have ...
This Friday, we will have a guest speaker from the University of Washington, Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease, share basic concepts around vaccines. This lecture will help us prepare for a later discussion when we dive into vaccines against COVID-19 in greater detail. Speaker: Dr. David Koelle, Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease, University of Washington. Dr. Koelle studies virology and immunology, along with viral oncogenesis, tumor immunotherapy, practical vaccinology issues such as adjuvants and delivery systems, and immune-mediated adverse drug reactions. The core ...
Ending the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic requires that we have robust diagnostic tests, effective antiviral drugs, and a vaccine. The front line is testing. As learned in the last post [1], molecular diagnostic tests are the best way to identify active COVID-19 infections, and the number of available tests has ...
In this webinar, we will introduce basic concepts in immunology and demonstrate how to use the Immune Epitope Database to investigate immunity to COVID-19 and gain insights into key requirements for developing antibodies and vaccines to COVID-19. We will also present an activity that students can use for a research project and investigate immunity to whatever they choose. Speaker: Dr. Sandra Porter, Shoreline Community College, Digital World Biology, and InnovATE BIO. Read more about B cell and T cell receptors: BCR is the new Antibody, TCR is still a T Cell Receptor This work was funded by an ...
Performing assays and testing samples is fundamental to all biotechnology workplaces, from basic research laboratories to large-scale production facilities. With the COVID-19 pandemic, diagnostic assays have entered the limelight. Last week, we discussed the use of molecular diagnostics to identify the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. This week, we will talk about testing for the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 proteins. The presence of anti-SARS-COV-2 antibodies tells us if a person has been infected. In this webinar, we will introduce basic assay principles so that you and your students can ...
Evaluate primer sequences from the UW publication - this is similar to an activity in Dr. Porter's bioinformatics course ( Bioinformatics for Biology and Biotech: Learning guide 10. PCR and primer BLAST) Before you begin: Go to the bottom of this page and download the worksheet. top 1. Pick a ...
Dr. Daiyuan ("Daisy") Zhang, Del Mar College, adapted to her college's lockdown by planning projects her students could do online. Her webinar describes three projects her students complete that are related to SARS-CoV-2.
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1. In the first project, students go to the NCBI Virus Lab, find the ...
Additional resources: LabCorp COVID-19 Testing Overview: Go inside a lab and see how LabCorp performs tests for COVID-19. Polymerase Chain Reaction (Interactive): Click through this animation to follow PCR amplification step-by-step. Then look at the amplification graph to see how many DNA molecules are produced after 30 cycles of PCR. Polymerase Chain Reaction (Video): Watch this narrated 3D animation of PCR at the molecular level.
The numbers of diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 are exploding.* These tests detect either viral RNA or antibodies to virus particles. But, which is best? That, of course, depends on what question is being asked. To help communicate how the different kinds of tests work, what they measure, and when they ...
I always look forward to the Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) database issue. Typically I cover the issue in January, but I got busy, and then a pandemic broke out, so this year I'm later than usual. Through the delay viruses emerged as a good topic. But, first ...
We recently presented a webinar on exploring biotech careers and how to use Biotech-Careers.org for investigating how companies are fighting COVID-19. This purpose of this blog is to gather some of those topics in a single place together with the career exploration handouts from Dr. Karen Leung, City College of ...
