Biology students and their teachers have addressed the question: how will your Bio shape the future?
Advanced disease research, stem cells, population growth, the environment and even molecular gastronomy were on the minds of the budding scientists who entered the Sigma Biogrant competition.
Check out the winning videos below, and you'll get a glimpse of the BioFuture. Congratulations to our winners!
We believe that the biggest challenge facing biology in the next 50 years will be the exponential growth of the human population in developing nations. Science will have to find a way to slow the population growth, feed billions, and somehow manage to conserve natural resources in the process. Our \”Biology News Network\” is a news broadcast from the future that displays our ideas for how biology can meet the challenges our world will face.
Cardiovascular diseases are still a major cause of death in developed countries. Despite a tremendous progress in cardiology in past decades, there is still no functional replacement for damaged cardiomyocytes except of heart transplantation. We believe that cell therapy is a promising strategy for myocardial repair. Cardiomyocyte differentiation should be induced from bone marrow derived stem cells and the bioscience in the future could develop a heterotopic heart for transplantation.
(NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Contest begins on 3/4/11 at 12:00:01 a.m. CT and ends on 10/28/11 at 4:59:59 p.m. CT. Open to high school students 13 years of age or older who are legal residents of the 50 United States, D.C. or Canada and who attend a public or a private high school located in the United States. All entries outside of the United States or Canada are open to university level students 18 years of age or older. Void where prohibited. Click here for complete Official Rules.)
