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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…
ABE Master Teacher Fellowship Launches a New Community of Leaders
January 15, 2021
The ABE Program Office is proud and excited to launch the inaugural cohort of the ABE Master Teacher Fellowship, with its first meeting taking place…
Spotlight on Rhode Island: Empowering Students with College-Level Lab Skills
December 23, 2020
As school systems across the United States continue to adapt to the new challenges posed by the COVID-19 global pandemic, Amgen Biotech Experience (…
CAR-T Therapy and Other Immunotherapies
December 19, 2020
Immunotherapy is fast becoming a promising treatment for cancer. By using patients’ own immune cells to treat cancer, doctors can avoid using…
ABE Volunteer Program: Bringing Biotech Careers into the Classroom
December 15, 2020
“You can’t be it if you can’t see it!” This is the driving mission behind the Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Volunteer Program, launched in 2018 to…
Tips and Tricks for Successful Virtual Learning Experiences
December 8, 2020
As distance learning continues for many communities across the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenge of keeping students engaged and…
An Escape with Purpose: Creating a Flexible Classroom Experience
December 8, 2020
On a Zoom call in November, Maria Niño-Soto held up her lab schedule, and it looked more like a complex conference scheme than a classroom set-up. It…
Bioinformatics BLAST-off!
December 7, 2020
Bioinformatics, the emerging field that uses software to analyze vast amounts of biological data, is also accessible in the classroom. Bioinformatics…
Barriers to Teacher Success
December 2, 2020
In past ABE all-staff meetings, we have discussed barriers to teacher success. Below are some suggestions from various ABE site staff on how to make…