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NEWSLETTER July 2024

Why Can Some People Live at High Altitudes While Others Can Become Ill Visiting These Places?

As you plan the upcoming school year’s lesson plans, introduce your high school students to the challenges of living and visiting high altitudes locations with low oxygen with the High Altitude Living Storyline lesson plans from the National Science Teaching Association and the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Through an interactive storyline format, students will identify problems and raise questions to learn core concepts about genetic variation and gene-environment interactions.

Free STEM Education Materials from the NIH!

NIH and its grantees offer many STEM resources that can be incorporated into this coming school year’s lesson plans and learning opportunities.

Students can learn all about vaccines, the Tetrahymena as a model organism, the effects of alcohol on the brain, and more!

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The Central Dogma of Genetics Made Fun

Teach your students the central dogma of genetics using a freely available hands-on, card sorting activity from Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s BioInteractive.

Students will learn the steps of gene expression, potential intervention strategies for genetic conditions and investigate the cutting-edge technologies in current research.

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Word of the Month

from NHGRI's Talking Glossary of Genomic and Genetic Terms

Central Dogma

The central dogma of molecular biology is a theory stating that genetic information flows only in one direction, from DNA, to RNA, to protein, or RNA directly to protein.

Learn more about the central dogma theory by listening in as Dr. Elaine Ostrander, an NIH Distinguished Investigator, shares how the theory was developed, early notions and exceptions to the theory.

Central Dogma

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