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ABE Australia Teacher Builds Bead Model to Help Students Visualize Plasmids
August 11, 2026
Susan Senior, an ABE Master Teacher Fellow in New South Wales, Australia, noticed her Year 12 students were struggling to grasp how plasmids work. “They just weren’t understanding how the plasmids would come apart and go back together,” she recalled. While the ABE laboratory kit includes a paper modeling activity, her students found the process…
It's All About the Students
January 29, 2020
"They come away understanding that as long as they learn how to use the equipment, they are modeling what a real scientist actually does." In her…
Analyzing Our Genes to Pinpoint Disease
May 15, 2021
You may never have heard of her, but Dr. Mary-Claire King is a significant name when it comes to the study of genetics. King was born in 1946 in…
Called into Action: Creating an At-Home Lab to Reach the Underrepresented
May 4, 2021
The week of George Floyd’s murder, Prachi Bagadia, like many people, felt like she wanted to take action. A senior associate scientist at Amgen San…
Considering the Ethics of Editing Genes (Part 2)
April 27, 2021
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the ethics of gene editing in the context of editing plant and animal genomes for agricultural purposes. In…
Considering the Ethics of Editing Genes (Part 1)
April 15, 2021
In this first part of a two-part blog series, we explore the history and ethics of editing plant and animal genes in the context of agriculture and…
ABE Appreciation: Charissa Lin, ABE Singapore
April 13, 2021
Meet one of our most passionate and innovative ABE community members. Working with her team at Singapore’s Science Centre, Charissa Lin is the team’s…
How Does ABE Approach Evaluation?
March 22, 2021
This is the first in a series of blog posts on the topic of evaluation in the context of the ABE program. Program evaluation is a valuable tool when…
Seeing Is Not Necessarily Believing
March 15, 2021
Supporting Students in Evaluating SourcesOne of the most difficult tasks that we have as humans is discerning whether something we hear, see, or read…