Malaria vaccine?

GlaxoSmithKline has come up with an experimental malaria vaccine. It does not offer immunity from malaria, but shown some benefits. Describe the experiment and offer some suggestions upon how it could have been improved.

The other article identifies some other ways that scientists are looking to create vaccines for malaria. Which of these would work the best? What problems do you think scientists encounter?

Diet Counters Bad Gene

This podcast reviews a research study in which the causes of heart disease were studied. It was determined that although one of the causes of heart disease is a gene, the diet of the person determined whether or not the gene was turned on. Comment upon the research of the study. Was their study valid, why? What could be done to make the research better?

New concussion test?

This partial article details how researchers have come up with a new test for concussions. Do you think it would work in a high school setting? What problems might occur and how would you solve those? What do you think is done now for concussions?

Project Squirrel

This is an idea called Project Squirrel where students can be involved in collecting data. Check it out.