Resources (41-60 of 92)

1. PhysiCell: invader-scout-attacker system

   05 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Paul Macklin, Randy Heiland

   PhysiCell model of an invader-scout-attacker multicellular system

2. PhysiCell cancer biorobots simulation

   28 Jan 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Randy Heiland, Paul Macklin

   2D simulation of biorobots delivering a drug to cancer cells

3. [Illinois] Light/Matter Interactions in Biology

   13 Apr 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Prashant K Jain

   Light/Matter Interactions at the Nano-Bio Interface Workshop

4. Help or Hype: The Ethics of Bio-nanotechnology

   11 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Samantha Andrews, NNCI Nano

   This lesson explores the ethical concerns related to bio-nanotechnology. Bio-nanotechnology is the application of nanotechnology to living things. This ranges from the creation of pharmaceuticals to medical devices. While scientists have created many life-saving treatments ethical concerns,...

5. Silver Nanoparticle Socks

   10 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Pennsylvania State Univeristy, NNCI Nano

   This lab will allow students to use the pure silver nanoparticles they synthesize to create antibacterial socks. They will compare their socks with socks that have been treated with a commercial silver spray, socks that have been treated in a factory, and a control that was not been...

6. Powers of Ten with the Blue Morpho Butterfly

   09 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Nancy Healy, Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

   This activity is designed to help students understand the concept of scale and magnification when examining a Blue Morpho butterfly wing. The activity requires the use of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) but images are provided if there is no access to an SEM.

7. Seeing Nano: Using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) to View Nano-size Objects

   02 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Samantha Andrews, NNCI Nano

   Nano-size objects are smaller than the wavelength of light and because of this they cannot be viewed with a light microscope.  Special tools are needed to see nanoscale objects, one of which is the scanning electron microscope. This activity will have students explore the types of images...

8. How Small is That?

   02 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Jamie Ryan, NNCI Nano

   This lab is designed to help students understand the size of nanoparticles compared to the size of other known quantities, such as a human being or a skin cell. After the size of nanoparticles is understood, the students will be challenged to come up with a way to “save”...

9. How Dry am I? Exploring Biomimicry and Nanotechnology

   01 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Elizabeth Davenport, Nancy Healy, NNCI Nano

   Through a series of activities, students will explore superhydrophobic properties of materials. This inquiry based lesson leads them through activities that has them compare and contrast physical properties of superhydrophobic coated materials with uncoated materials. In the process they will...

10. Using Gold Nanoparticles for Bacterial Detection

    28 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Michael L. Falk, NNCI Nano

    This lab is designed to introduce students to gold nanoparticles and some of their applications. Students will create gold nanoparticles (GNPs) and learn the potential disease detection uses of GNPs, conduct research on modifying GNPs to be specific to other molecules, and complete a simulation...

11. The Blood Glucose Monitor

    28 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Steven Thedford, Samantha Andrews, Nancy Healy, NNCI Nano

    Students are introduced to glucose monitors, how these biosensors are being improved with naotechnology, and they test glucose levels. The purpose of the lab is to measure the glucose concentration of several synthetic blood and urine samples to determine which patients have diabetes. Students...

12. The Effects of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles on Brine Shrimp: A Toxicology Study

    05 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: NNCI Nano

    This lab is designed to help students understand the following: the interdisciplinary fields of science, a practical application of chemistry in the real world, and the need to carefully conduct experiments and evaluate data in a collaborative environment. ...

13. [Illinois] Nanotechnology meets Biology in the Cancer Cell: Applications in Medicine, Drug Delivery, and Determining Drug Efficacy

    04 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Mostafa El-Sayed

14. [Illinois] Make Biology: Bio-Design Automation In Synthetic Biology

    05 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Doug Densmore

    The creation of complex systems whether electronic, mechanic, chemical, or biological can prove incredibly challenging. In this talk, I will outline my vision for "Bio-Design Automation" for synthetic biology. Specifically, I will highlight my research's efforts in the...

15. [Illinois] Biophysics 401 Lecture 1: Introduction, Dogma of Molecular Biology; Evolution

    17 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Paul R Selvin

16. Cell Culture Basics Training

    17 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Sophie A. Lelièvre, Shirisha Chittiboyina, Tim Kwok

    This series of videos combined with accompanying PowerPoint file comprise introductory training for Cell Culture Basics. This learning unit is part of the training required for access to the Three Dimensional Cell Culture Core (3D3C) facility at Purdue University.

17. [Illinois] Translational Nanomedicine in the Interface of Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering

    26 Aug 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Dipanjan Pan

18. [Illinois] Microfluidics and Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine

    08 Aug 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Rashid Bashir

19. [Illinois] How to Break the "Fundamental" Limits of Nanobiosensing

    07 Apr 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam

    As the future of Moore’s law of transistor scaling appears uncertain, electronics is being reinvented by broadening the focus to other areas including macroelectronics (electronics of large, possibly flexible and transparent displays), bioelectronics (e.g., nanobio sensors for genomics,...

20. Mathematics of Ions in Channels and Solutions: Stochastic Derivations, Direct, Variational and Inverse Solutions that fit Data

    05 Feb 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Bob Eisenberg

    Literally thousands of biologists study the properties of channels in experiments every day. My collaborators and I have shown how the relevant equations can be derived (almost) from stochastic differential equations, and how they can be solved in inverse, variational, and direct problems using...