Children's Blocks, Libraries Help Students Unravel Genomics.
AScribe Law News Service, September, 2005
Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Simple children's plastic building blocks and other familiar objects are teaching high school and college students the intricacies of biotechnology and genomics through an educational model that Purdue University researchers have developed.
Called the Genomic Analogy Model for Educators (GAME), the strategy is designed to make genomic concepts easily understandable for students and the general population. The program is available on the Internet at http://www.entm.purdue.edu/extensiongenomics/GAME/ and also is being adapted for the visually impaired and being translated into Spanish.
"This program is meant to teach people who have no background in science about...
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