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Genomics Digital Lab™
Genomics Digital Lab (GDL) is an award winning, integrated on-line learning environment where users experience the world of biology through discovery-based learning. GDL was developed as a series of curriculum-aligned and integrated games, modules, and interactive simulations covering an array of topics in biology. To meet the needs of students, teachers, and schools, GDL is designed to be fully online, accessible through a web browser, with no downloads, or installation, accessible from home or school, and provides teachers with much needed class creation tools and integrated real-time assessment.
Where is Walden Shyre and what happened to him on the eve of the Nobel Prize Ceremony? As a new laboratory assistant to the two-time Nobel laureate, Dr. Walden A. Shyre, users navigate through a labyrinth of clues, objects, and internet sites trying to figure out why Dr. Shyre has disappeared. What secret project was he working on? Who might be after him? Will they come after you too? Hidden amongst the history of biology, Shyre has left clues and puzzles to access the secrets of his most important and controversial research ever.
History is an interactive, online science scavenger hunt where students learn about the history of biology, the people and the impact their discoveries had on and continues to have on society, ethics, politics and culture.
Transcription Hero is an educational game where you get to play the role of RNA Polymerase! Travel down the rails of a DNA sequence, try to transcribe the gene without causing too many mutations, and race against native RNA Polymerase... all while listening to your favourite tunes!
Cellscape Explorer is a teaching and learning tool that effectively communicates cell biology using integrated lessons, games, and problem-solving. Students learn to discover and interact with both cellular anatomy and physiology through an exciting and empowering immersive environment.
