The aim of this activity, which is titled “Do Research!”, is to contribute to the amelioration of the scientific culture of young students in a participative and didactic manner in order to promote their interest in research and the projects they carry out at research centers, as well as fomenting vocations in this area. <\/p>\n
The two-hour workshops, from 10 to 12 a.m., allow the young people to do two experiments: the first consists in using different biological samples to discover who committed a crime. The practice enables learning how to carry out an electorphoresis. The other experiment invites the participants to obtain their own DNA (lightly scraping their gums with a spatula) and to make an extraction of the genetic material of the cells with different reagents in order to visualize it. <\/p>\n
The experiments done in the “Do Research!” workshop are supervised by researchers from IRB Barcelona: Cons\u00f2l Farrera, who belongs to the Group of Macrophage Biology and Regulation of Genetic Expression and Carles Mart\u00ednez, from the Group of Metabolic Engineering and Diabetes Therapy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every Thursday during the month of May, the Barcelona Science Park offers a free workshop of experiments targeting high school science students. The initiative, in which researchers from the Institut de Recerca Biom\u00e8dica<\/a> (IRB Barcelona) participate, is part of the scientific divulgation program \u00abResearch in Society\u00bb<\/a> of the PCB. It is included within the offer of activities of Escolab<\/a>, a platform created by Barcelona City Council’s Institute of Culture in the framework of the celebration of Science Barcelona 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n