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1. Explore the LabXchange library

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Browse the thousands of free learning resources in our library. For a quick overview, start on our Explore page.

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3. Design your own pathway

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With LabXchange, you have the power to personalize learning. Remix any of our content into a custom pathway. (You can even incorporate content from your own private library!) Then, you can share your pathway with any other LabXchange users.

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4. Create your own class

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You can build a private space for teaching, learning, and discussion with LabXchange classes. In your class, you can easily share content and track progress.

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LabXchange
Simulation
Restriction Enzyme Digest
This simulation provides an opportunity to practice a restriction digest in a virtual lab setting. Restriction enzymes are used to cut the DNA strands of two plasmids, producing DNA fragments with...
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Video
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don’t even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet.
Wellcome Genome Campus
Video
DNA Replication
This 3D animation shows how DNA is copied in a cell. It demonstrates how both strands of the DNA helix are unzipped and copied to produce two identical DNA molecules.
LabXchange
Simulation
Experimental Design - Identify SNPs
This simulation provides an arena where experimental design can be practiced. To answer a specific research question, learners generate a sequence of laboratory techniques to reach the...
PhET
Simulation
Gene Expression Essentials
Express yourself through your genes! See if you can generate and collect three types of protein, then move on to explore the factors that affect protein synthesis in a cell.
LabXchange
Interactive
Introduction to Gene Editing: CRISPR-Cas9
This interactive introduces how mistakes in the genome can cause disease. The gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 can correct these mistakes and potentially cure disease.
The Concord Consortium
Simulation
DNA: The Double Helix
Use the controls to explore this fragment of a much longer DNA strand. Can you find the four different base pairs that DNA is constructed from?
BioVisions
Video
Inner Life of the Cell with Music
One of the most viewed science animations in history, the Inner Life of the Cell follows a white blood cell’s movement along the endothelium and its response to an external stimulus...
LabXchange
Interactive
How Do Restriction Enzymes Cut Plasmids?
This scrollable interactive demonstrates how restriction enzymes (also called endonucleases) work and why they can be used as tools to analyze DNA and create...
LabXchange
Cluster
Foundational Concepts and Techniques in Biotechnology
The goal of this cluster is to expose learners to funda mental concepts and lab techniques essential to the field of biotechnology, including creating a recombinant...
LabXchange
Pathway - 9 items
Coronavirus: From Bats to Humans to Pandemic
What do bats have to do with coronaviruses? As it turns out, the adaptation to flight may be what turned bats into perfect virus reservoirs. One of these viruses, the new coronavirus...
LabXchange
Simulation
Gel Electrophoresis
This simulation introduces gel electrophoresis, a technique used to separate biological molecules. In this simulation, gel electrophoresis is used to separate dyes and visualize them in an agarose gel.
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