As New Zealanders looking to the future, we are faced with many opportunities – and challenges. These include improving the health of all our people, advancing our economic growth, protecting our ...
In some types of bone reconstruction operations, pieces of bone harvested from some other location in the body, such as the pelvis, are used to replace the damaged or diseased bone. This is a ...
Bioceramics are ceramic materials specially developed for use as medical and dental implants. They are usually used to replace hard tissue in the body like bone and teeth. Common bioceramics are ...
In this activity, students compare the rate of degradation of disposable plates using three different disposal methods. Purpose To experiment with a range of disposable plates made from different ...
In this activity, students create artificial bones made of paper to compare the relative strength of solid bones with hollow bones. By the end of this activity, students should be able to ...
In this activity, students watch video clips of IRL research scientist Dr Ian Brown talking about sialons and then answer a series of graded questions related to the content. By the end of this ...
Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In this online ...
Students develop their knowledge to design a disposable product as a sustainable alternative to an existing product. Purpose To consider the issues of increasing plastics use and understand why ...
Students develop their knowledge to design a disposable product as a sustainable alternative to an existing product. Purpose To understand why increasing use of non-degradable materials is not ...
A Year 9 class visited a local lavender farm as part of a biotechnology unit investigating the production, packaging and marketing of lavender oil for aromatherapy. The purpose of the field trip ...
Dr Michael Mucalo is a senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Waikato. One of his research interests is in the bioceramics field, and in this video, Michael explains the meaning of ...
When diseased bone is surgically removed from a person’s body, it is normally replaced with a substitute, which is most often harvested from the hip bone of that person. University of Waikato’s ...
One of the problems with cow bone hydroxyapatite is that it lacks strength. In this video, Dougal Laird, a University of Waikato PhD student, outlines his bioceramic research project, which ...
This interactive shows the process of creating an advanced ceramic, O-Sialon, in the laboratory.
This interactive explains the different cells, microorganisms and molecules involved in the human immune system.
This interactive is a simple version of the human immune response to two different pathogens.
