All Biology articles – Page 3
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ResourceThe chemistry of sports drinks
Learn about the chemistry and science behind sports drinks and the effects on the body. Find out how chemists have contributed to the improvement of athletic performance through discussion and worksheet exercises.
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Chemistry now: chemistry and sport
This deals with the chemistry of aerobic and anaerobic respiration in the context of athletics and looks at a number of ways in which athletes can manipulate (legally!) the chemistry of this process to their advantage by monitoring the concentration of lactic acid in their blood.
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Faces of Chemistry – Biosensors
Find out how scientists at the material science laboratory, QMUL, develop biosensors to enhance sport performance.
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Chemistry and Sport - Athletics: 400m
Discover the chemistry behind one of the toughest athletic events - the 400m race.
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The effect of cooking on vitamin C in cabbage
An experiment to determine how the vitamin C content of cabbage varies with the method of cooking.
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Detecting starch in food on a microscale
Test different foodstuffs for the presence of starch using iodine in this microscale class practical. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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You are what you ate
This C/PBL resource looks at the metabolic causes and incidence of obesity in the cultural and social environment within which students, tutors, and institutions operate. Students are presented with a problem, the growing incidence of obesity, in a real life context in which the core subject, metabolic chemistry, plays a ...
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Chemistry's interfaces: nutrition
This C/PBL resource is an introduction to some of the most important aspects of chemical biology. Its introduces students to a number of important chemical structures which play major biological roles within human metabolism.
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Advanced Medicinal Chemistry
This course material gives real-life examples of drug discovery and information on the drug discovery process through an industrial context, produced by Dr Ray Leslie of NTU and AstraZeneca.
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Measuring vitamin C in food
Get your students to test their fruit and vegetables for vitamin C using simple kitchen equipment and household items
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Challenging Medicines: Physiochemical Properties - Practicals
Practical experiments associated with the handouts for Physiochemical Properties. Investigating the dissolution, pKₐ and rates of hydrolysis of everyday tablets are covered.
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Challenging Medicines: Body Chemistry
Medicines and the development of pharmaceutical drugs have the potential to help us take on the challenge of human health - Improving and maintaining accessible health, including disease prevention.
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Challenging Medicines: Introduction/Pedagogical Overview
Medicines and the development of pharmaceutical drugs have the potential to help us take on the challenge of human health - Improving and maintaining accessible health, including disease prevention.
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Challenging Medicines: Physiochemical Properties
These resource sheets look at the different physiochemical properties of medicines. Pharmacokinetic processes, dissolution, ionisation and dissociation are all covered here.
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The rhythm of life
Emma Davies explores how unravelling the complex mechanisms of the body clock has led to some fascinating discoveries and a 2017 Nobel prize
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Summer bees vulnerable to nanoparticles in fuel additives
Cerium oxide nanoparticles cause biochemical changes in honeybees
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News
Torn crystal reveals gecko's stickiness
The force behind a gecko’s sticky feet has been measured and modified
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Exceptional enzymes
New biological catalysts could deliver useful chemicals chemistry cannot make
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Love you, honey: edible experiments:
How can honey be solid or runny? Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this edible experiment.
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Investigating invertase: edible experiments
How are fondant centres in chocolate created? Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this edible experiment.
