Sugar, a luxury in the past but now part of our daily diets, is contributing to weight gain. It’s found in our drinks and most processed foods either as sucrose (table sugar) or high-fructose ...
Perhaps it has something to do with New Year’s resolutions – three different lots of research into weight loss made headlines in the first quarter of 2013. Each research project focused on a ...
Different people respond differently to different foods. This is partly because we all have different genes, and our genes can affect the way our bodies deal with food. Because of this ...
In this activity, students define four key cancer terms. The aim is to produce accurate definitions identifiable by their peers. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: define ...
In this activity, students complete a graphic organiser to explore the characteristics of normal and cancerous cells. By the end of this activity, students should be able to: describe the ...
In this online citizen science (OCS) project, participants analyse electron microscope images taken of a range of biological samples, helping scientists better understand cancer, infectious ...
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 knowledge of new technology that enables fish oil to be added to food without a fishy taste or smell and design an advertisement to promote an omega-3 enriched food. Purpose To ...
Join Karen Parker from Tahuna Normal Intermediate School and Greta Dromgool from the Science Learning Hub in a session which will introduce you to Vision 20/20, an exciting Participatory Science ...
Winter is coming!! And so are coughs, colds and other nasty lurgies. What is going on in our bodies? How do we get sick? How do our bodies fight these bugs? In this online PD session recorded on ...
Dr David Stevenson, a senior scientist with Plant & Food Research, bases his advice for health and wellbeing on what scientists are discovering about cellular components called mitochondria ...
The nutrigenomics research is being carried out by researchers from the University of Auckland and government-funded research institutes (Crown Research Institutes, or CRIs): Plant & Food ...
Carolyn Cairncross, a nutritionist with the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation, explains the meaning of the term ‘macro’ and then identifies the macronutrients as carbohydrate, fat and protein ...
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.
An overview of the process used to make a pig cell transplant treatment for type 1 diabetes.
