Aptamers in Education: Undergraduates Make Aptamers and Acquire 21st Century Skills Along the Way.

ABSTRACT: Aptamers have a well-earned place in therapeutic, diagnostic, and sensor applications, and we now show that they provide an excellent foundation for education, as well. Within the context of the Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) at The University of Texas at Austin, students have used aptamer selection and development technologies in a teaching laboratory to build technical and 21st century skills appropriate for research scientists. One of the unique aspects of this course-based undergraduate research experience is that students develop and execute their own projects, taking ownership of their experience in what would otherwise be a traditional teaching lab setting. Of the many successes, this work includes the isolation and characterization of novel calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase

SUBMITTER: Stovall GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6696043 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature