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“Discovering the murderer” the last activity of the AmgenTransferSciència program of this academic year
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“Discovering the murderer” the last activity of the AmgenTransferSciència program of this academic year
The educational program to promote scientific vocations, AmgenTransferCiència, took place last May at the IES Districte Marítim and last week at the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology.
Cecilia Picazo Campos, doctor in the Maria Zambrano postdoctoral research program at the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio, joint center of the University of Valencia and the CSIC), gave the activity “Discovering the murderer” at the IES Maritim Serreria for 4th ESO students.
The program, organized by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) and the biopharmaceutical company Amgen, seeks to promote a scientific vocation. Pilar Domingo Calap, Víctor Garrigós, Àngela Vidal and Alba Iglesias had already participated in the activity previously.
The Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI), created in 1986, disseminates research and innovation among society to promote scientific culture, scientific-technical vocations among young people, as well as entrepreneurship and public-private collaboration in R&D.
On the other hand, Amgen is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and production of biological medicines for patients with serious diseases or unmet medical needs. With the aim of improving the quality of life of patients, it focuses its efforts on cardiology, nephrology, bone health and oncohematology. Its treatments have benefited more than 20 million patients around the world and hundreds of thousands of people in Spain, where it has been present since 1990.
With this informative activity “Discovering the murderer”, Cecilia Picazo proposed a practice on the extraction and amplification of DNA from biological remains with a game that consisted of identifying the author of an alleged crime. It began with the extraction of DNA from strawberries with a “homemade” lysis buffer and ended with a DNA electrophoresis to identify who, of the three suspects, was the murderer.
In addition, last week, the students visited the I2Sysbio facilities, being able to see in person the technology used to produce active dry yeast on a laboratory scale and all the equipment, materials and air-conditioned rooms necessary to work in a laboratory.
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