Your World Magazine Article Guide

The Biotechnology Institute publishes Your World: Biotechnology & You, the premier biotechnology magazine for grades 7 to 12, twice a year. Your World combines balanced, in-depth information on a single topic.

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How Biotech Can Help Those with Rare Diseases
Volume 16, N0. 2

  • Growing Old Too Fast
  • Putting Treatments on Trial
  • A Good Deal for Research
  • An Electric Approach
  • Scope It Out
  • Kids and Teachers

Biofuels: Energy for Your Future
(Vol. 16, No. 1)

  • Contents
  • Powering Up 2
  • Biofuels 101
  • Everyone’s Talking Ethanol
  • Filling Up Without Fouling the Air
  • The Power of Mud
  • A Power-People Continuum
  • Career Profile: Kathleen J. Danna
  • Hands-on Lab: Oozing Power
  • Resources

 

A World of Change: Biotech-Derived Animals, Microbes and Plants
(Vol. 15, No. 2)

  • Changing for the Better
  • The Nitty Gritty of Genetic Modification
  • And This Little Piggy Save a Life!
  • Going Forward Cautiously
  • Biodiversity and Biotech: Entwined for Life
  • Building Better Bugs
  • Career Profile: Norman Borlaug
  • Little Ms. Muffet Biotech
  • Resources

Obesity
(Vol. 15, No. 1)

  • Biotechnology Tackles Obesity
  • Getting Inside What Determines Weight
  • Calorie-Coated Diabetes
  • The Roads to Controlling Obesity
  • Made-to-Order Diets
  • How Low Should You Go?
  • Career Profile: Learning from Fat Mice
  • Lab: Leptin to the Rescue?
  • Resources

Microbes: Parts and Potential
(Vol. 14, No. 2)

  • Microbes for the Future
  • Getting Down to Essentials
  • Systems, Go
  • Building the Tree of Life
  • Menace Mashers
  • Considering All Things
  • Career Profile: The Business of Science
  • Hands-On Lab: Name That Gene
  • Resources

Emerging Diseases
(Vol. 14, No. 1)

  • Introduction
  • Vaccines: Boosting Your Defenses
  • The Conundrum of Coronavirus
  • Using Mathematics: It All Adds Up
  • Superbugs vs. Biotechnology
  • The Ethics Angle
  • Career Profile: Meet Mr. Bug Spit
  • Lab: Bacterial Growth Activity
  • Glossary and Resources

Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology
(Vol. 13, No. 2)

  • Industrial-Strength Biotechnology
  • Home Sweet Biotech
  • A Biotech Toolbox
  • A Sweet Deal for the Environment
  • Clean Sweep
  • Mr. Catalyst—The Unsung Hero!
  • Career Profile: Craig Venter
  • Activity: Make Your own ‘Green’ Plastic!
  • Glossary and Resources

Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals
(Vol. 13, No. 1)

  • Plants: Factories of the Future
  • So You Want to Make a PMP
  • Worth the Effort
  • Down on the ‘Pharm’
  • The Chosen Ones
  • Potent Plants
  • Career Profile: Ann-Marie Stomp
  • Activity: Microbial Bioassay
  • Glossary and Resources

The Secret of How Life Works
(Vol. 12, No. 2)

  • The Case of the Sleuthing Scientists
  • Cooking Up Proteins
  • Math Matters
  • Testing What We’re Made Of
  • A New Kind of Fingerprint
  • Pharmacogenetics: Tailor-Made Medicine
  • Profile: Forensics at Work: DNA Analyst
  • Activity: The Case of the Crown Jewels
  • ‘DNA’s Dark Lady’
  • Resources

Learning about Drugs and Alcohol through Biotechnology
(Vol. 12, No. 1)

  • Your “Plastic” Teenage Brain
  • The Reward Pathway: Why We All Scream for Ice Cream
  • Cocaine Cravings
  • Alcohol: Rats, Genes, and Teens
  • Unhooking from Smoking
  • Ecstasy (and Agony)
  • Profile: Dr. Huda Akil: What’s the Point of Pain?
  • Something You Can Try: The Tell-Tale Heart

Microbes Coming into Focus
(Vol. 11, No. 2)

  • Revealing the Microbial World: Inside Gene Discovery
  • Biofilms and Quorum Sensing: The Gang’s All Here
  • Anthrax: The Sleeper Cell
  • Bioremediation: Microbes That Like it Hot!
  • Ecosystem in the Abyss: Black Smokers and “Umbs”
  • Profile: Karen Nelson, Genome Researcher
  • Something You Can Try: Growing Biofilms
  • Resources

Fighting Cancer with Biotechnology
(Vol. 11, No. 1)

  • The Making of a cancer
  • A Cancer Turns Deadly
  • Sun and Smokes
  • Colon Cancer’s Jump Start
  • Leukemia and a Magic Bullet
  • Profile: Sir David Lane and the p53 Gene
  • Something You Can Try: Detecting a Cancer Risk Factor
  • Resources

Cracking the Code of Life
(Vol. 10, No. 2)

  • Three Books in One
  • Why Tay - Sachs disease?
  • The Breast Cancer Gene: Fate or Risk?
  • Of Mice and Memory
  • Iceland: 1,100+ Years of Genetic Solitude
  • Profile: Bruce T. Lahn, Researching the Why of the Y
  • Something you can try: Crack This Code!
  • Resources

Genetically Modified Food Crops
(Vol. 10, No. 1)

  • Creating Better Plants
  • Weed Warriors
  • Monarch Butterfly Effect
  • Golden Rice
  • Potato Power
  • Profile: Florence Muringi Wambugu
  • Something you can try: Growing Soybeans and Researching Monarchs

Biotechnology and AIDS
(Vol. 9, No. 2)

  • Discovering the Cause of AIDS
  • How HIV Kills
  • The Combination Drug Cocktail
  • New Approaches to Drugs
  • Vaccines
  • Profile: Debbi Birx: AIDS Researcher
  • Something you can try

Computers and Biotechnology
(Vol. 9, No. 1)

  • Introduction: A Graphic View of You!
  • Hunting for Genes
  • SNPs and Chips
  • Every Picture Tells a Story
  • Viewing Molecules and Proteins
  • Searching for Drugs
  • Profile: John McAlister: Computer Modeler
  • Activity: Molecular Puzzles

Genes and Medicine
(Vol. 8, No. 1)

  • Genes and Medicine
  • Hemophilia and the Last Czar’s Son
  • A Healing Gene
  • The Challenges to Gene Therapy
  • Naked DNA Therapy for Blood Vessels
  • Cancer and the Guardian of the Genome
  • Could We? Should We?
  • References

Marine Biotechnology
(Vol. 7, No. 2)

  • Exploring the Diversity in the Sea
  • The Biotechnology Porthole
  • The Ocean Superstore
  • Zippy Zebras
  • Fertile Turtles
  • Life at the Extremes
  • Profile: Sunny Jiang: Predicting Cholera Outbreaks
  • Activity: Taking it to Extremes!
  • Resources

Tissue Engineering
(Vol. 7, No. 1)

  • Tissues Under Repair: From Ancient Greece to Tomorrow
  • Tissue Construction Site
  • Differentiation: How Does a Cell Know What Cell to Be?
  • New Products: Skin, Bones, & More
  • Under Design: Complex Organs
  • Parallel Technologies
  • Profile: Doris Taylor
  • Activity: “Reverse” Tissue Engineering
  • References

New Diagnostics
(Vol. 6, No. 2)

  • Medical Detectives
  • Immunodiagnostics: Locks & Keys
  • Genetic Diagnostics: Interlocking DNA Molecules
  • The Strep Throat Control
  • Safeguarding the Blood Bank
  • Detecting Disease by its Disease
  • Profile: Ann Kirsch, Senior Medical Technologist
  • Activity: The Antibody Sandwich Test

Investigating the Brain
(Vol. 6, No. 1)

  • Investigating the Brain
  • Neurons: An Electrifying Kind of Cell
  • Synapses: Getting the Message Across
  • Drugs and the Brain: Miracle or Menace
  • Profile: Sandra Moon: Neuroanatomist
  • Alzheimer’s Disease: Fading Memories
  • Wanted: Medical Breakthroughs
  • Mapping the Mind
  • Experiment: Getting the Point
  • Ethical Issues on Neuroscience

Exploring the Human Genome
(Vol. 5, No. 2)

  • Odyssey into Ourselves
  • The Human Genome Project
  • The Structure and Function of DNA
  • Genes, Proteins, and Genetic Disease
  • Mapping the Genome
  • The Accidental Discovery of PCR
  • Informatics and Automation
  • Huntington’s Disease
  • Activity: Finding a Marker for Huntington’s Disease
  • Colon Cancer
  • The Obesity Gene

Transgenic Animals
(Vol. 5, No. 1)

  • From Wolf to Poodle – Taming and Changing Animals
  • The Science of Breeding
  • Developing a Transgenic Animal
  • Healthier Foods, Healthier Animals
  • Meanwhile, Back on the Pharm:  Animals Making Medicine
  • Animal Models of Human Disease
  • Our Long Relationship with animals
  • Profile: Vernon G. Pursel, Animal Physiologist
  • Class Project: Predicting Traits

Gene Therapy
(Vol. 4, No. 2)

  • Gene Therapy Opens New Horizons in Treating Disease
  • A Medical Revolution Begins
  • Getting New Genes into Cells
  • Vectors’ Vehicles for Transferring Genes
  • Profile: Mariann Grossman: A Pioneer in Gene Therapy
  • The First Success  in Gene Therapy: Helping a Woman Fight Deadly High Cholesterol
  • Gene Therapy for Cancer and Infectious Diseases
  • Should We Change Our Genes?
  • Class Discussion: Ethical Problems in Genetics

Environmental Biotechnology
(Vol. 4, No. 1)

  • The Natural Classroom
  • Preserving Biodiversity: A New Economic Resource for Costa Rica
  • Nature’s Guide to New Drugs: Taxol from the Pacific Yew Tree
  • Bioremediation Bacteria’s Top Job
  • Biosensors: Using Biotechnology to Find and Fight Pollution
  • Environmental Regulation
  • Profile: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie: An Entrepreneur in Biotechnology
  • Experiment: Finding Starch-Eating Organisms in Soil

Vaccines
(Vol. 3,  No. 2)

  • Vaccines: Shortcut to Immunity
  • Defending the Body Against Foreign Invaders
  • Imitating the Immune Response
  • Early Vaccines: Smallpox and Polio
  • The Next Wave: Recombinant Vaccines
  • Into the Future: Working on an AIDS Vaccine
  • The Wistar Institute: A Leader in Biomedical Research
  • Profile: Dorthee Herlyn: Researching a Cancer Vaccine at the Wistar Institute
  • “Anti-idiotype Antibody”: Big Words to Fight a Big Disease – Cancer
  • Experiment: Fighting Diseases by Matching Antibodies to Antigens

Industrial Biotechnology
(Vol. 3,  No. 1)

  • Industrial biotechnology: From laboratories to factories
  • Fermentation: Putting microorganisms to work
  • Scaling up
  • Penicillin: Bacteria killer that saves lives
  • Dr. Biotech talks about careers in bioengineering
  • New plastics join the family of polymers
  • Say Cheese!
  • Let it snow!
  • Profile: Meet Dr. Kodzo Gbewonyo
  • Experiment: The process of fermentation

Plant Biotechnology
(Vol. 2, No. 2)

  • Agricultural Biotechnology from caves to laboratories
  • The Seed Knows How does the seed know what plant to be?
  • From Plant Breeding to Plant Engineering
  • Bionic Crops
  • Controlling those Pesky Pests
  • Feed the World… can science help?
  • Experiment: How Genes Make Proteins
  • Profile: Meet Dr. Cynthia Gawron-Burke

Molecular Diagnostics
(Vol. 2, No. 1)

  • You’re the Only You!
  • Genetic Detectives: Solving Crimes with Science
  • DNA and the FBI
  • Tiny Clues Uncover a Remarkable Universe - Extracting DNA and Preparing it for Profiling
  • An Experiment: A model of DNA
  • Cystic Fibrosis: We Found the Gene, We will Find the Cure
  • A Young Girl with Cystic Fibrosis
  • Profile: Denise Lafayette: Genetic Counselor

Health Care, Agriculture, Environment
(Vol. 1, No. 1)

  • What is Biotechnology?
  • Biotechnology in Action - Health: Human Growth Hormone
  • An Experiment – The Onion Lab
  • Biotechnology Under Development – Animals: Stopping Rabies Among Wild Animals
  • Biotechnology on the Horizon – Environment: Cleaning up Chemical Waste.