Comments for Research Experience http://ahughes07.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://edublogs.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Setting Up for the Chronic Tests by donham http://ahughes07.edublogs.org/2008/07/08/setting-up-for-the-chronic-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-4 donham Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:14:27 +0000 http://ahughes07.edublogs.org/?p=8#comment-4 This investigation is a mixture of high & low technology it would seem to me. The idea of carbon nanotubes to deliver drugs is pretty gee-whiz, but the study you are doing, and the question you are asking-”what are the effects on living systems” are pretty accessible, so I can see that you will be able to take this study and make it comprehensible to students.

I also expect that it will produce some nice graphing opportunities with the data you get. Very cool.

]]> Comment on Continuing to Set Up the Experiment by donham http://ahughes07.edublogs.org/2008/07/02/continuing-to-set-up-the-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-3 donham Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:03:03 +0000 http://ahughes07.edublogs.org/?p=5#comment-3 Adria!
This sounds cool–if Daphnia are easy to culture, it seems like you could keep them around as an animal model for all sorts of student investigations. Have a nice weekend. Richard

]]> Comment on Beginning Research by donham http://ahughes07.edublogs.org/2008/06/30/beginning-research/comment-page-1/#comment-2 donham Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:40:14 +0000 http://ahughes07.edublogs.org/?p=4#comment-2 Adria-
Interesting stuff. I shall look forward to hearing about the uses of carbon nanotubes. I wonder in the old days, technologies were introduced with very little thought or study of the bad biological consequences. And we ended up with asbestos and DDT, for example.

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