BioTeach
Journal
« home

Find on this site:

 


VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 FALL 2004

journal cover page

VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 cover/table of contents PDF

What is "BioTeach Reviews and Readings?"
This is a freely accessible online journal that showcases upper undergraduate and graduate student papers. Topics generally relate to the life sciences in either the technical or ethical arenas, and are written primarily for senior undergraduate or junior graduate students looking for material more digestable than that found in scientific journals.
If you are interesting in submitting a paper, please contact us at ambl@interchange.ubc.ca
Mammalian Cloning 1
David H.W. Ng
KEYWORDS: cloning, ethics, history, theory
details | PDF

Assisted Reproductive Technologies
6
Chantal Levesque
KEYWORDS: infertility, surrogacy, insemination
details | PDF

Attack of the Clones: The Use of Somatic Embryogenesis in Forestry
13
Alex Lane
KEYWORDS: tree farm, clonal reproduction
details | PDF

Bioremediation
18
Molly Leung
KEYWORDS: biodegradation, biotransformation, mineralization
details | PDF

Caenorhabditis elegans: The Heavyweight Champ of Gene Knockout Technology
23
Rachel Pan
KEYWORDS: C.elegans, knockout, model organism
details | PDF

Dendritic Cells
28
Mei Mei Tian
KEYWORDS: immune response, antigens, antigen-presenting cells
details | PDF

The Design of Blood Substitutes: Oxygen Carriers
33
Pascal Beauchesne
KEYWORDS: hemoglobin, heme, allogeneic blood, perfluorocarbons
details | PDF

Genetic Screening for Huntington's Disease
39
Shannon Wright
KEYWORDS: mutation, ethics, Huntington, genetic screening
details | PDF

Half-baked Science: A Pimer on Medicinal Cannabis
44
Ryan Phillipe
KEYWORDS: medicinal cannabis, treatment, pain, cancer, AIDS
details | PDF

Is it Possible to Build Computers from Living Cells?
53
Vijay Sharma
KEYWORDS: logic gates, gene regulation, circuit
details | PDF

Junk-greedy Greens: Phytoremediation as a New Option for Soil Contamination 61
Corrine Cluis
KEYWORDS: phytodegradation, phytovolatolization, phytostimulation, phytodetoxification
details | PDF

Learning, Memory and the Quest for Nootropia
68
Brennan Eadie
KEYWORDS: neurological disorders, treatment, learning, memory, nootropia
details | PDF

Legal Rights and the Maternal-Fetal Conflict
76
Linda Tran
KEYWORDS: medical ethics, fetal rights, maternal rights
details | PDF

Molecular Virology of HIV-1 and Current Antiviral Strategies
81
Paul A. Lythgo
KEYWORDS: infection, life cycle, antiretroviral drugs
details | PDF

The New Antimicrobials: Cationic Peptides
88
Sara Wilcox
KEYWORDS: cationic peptide, antibiotic resistance, bacteria
details | PDF

Plant Metabolomics
93
Vicki Maloney
KEYWORDS: metabolomics, metabolites, environmental stress
details | PDF

Sarin Nerve Gas
Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love PON-1
101
Beth Simpson
KEYWORDS: Sarin, neurotoxin
details | PDF

Telomeres and their Role in Cancer
107
Johanna Ip
KEYWORDS: telomere, aging, cancer
details | PDF

Vector-mediated Gene Therapy and the Herpes Simplex Virus
113
Chantal Levesque
KEYWORDS: Herpes Simplex virus, gene therapy, viral vector
details | PDF

 

Contact us: ambl@interchange.ubc.ca