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New ways of visualizing scientific and medical data and concepts can enhance discovery and learning. The NIH 3D Print Exchange provides access to a community-contributed database of bioscientific 3D-printable files. Download a model and print it with your own 3D printer or through a 3D print service provider.

Free tools for teaching - printable worksheets, classroom printables and on-line worksheet templates with images from Tools for Educators. Use these free worksheets to print, game makers, and programs for teachers  to make and print teaching resources with pictures or classroom materials for kids. 

7:47 video Students at UCF are designing an inexpensive 3D printed arm for kids. To find out more and to get involved, check out: http://office.tumblr.com Big thanks to Microsoft and the Collective Project for introducing me to Albert and his amazing team. They are continuing to help people around the world one hand at a time and they could use your help.

DNA fingerprinting tutorial with graphics

Interactive tool for students to publish newspapers, brochures, or flyer/sign/posters.

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graphic summarizing the DNA fingerprinting technique

create single, triple, or six pane cartoons which can be printed or saved as .pdf files

Cancer treatment like chemotherapy can wreak havoc on a patient's body - even if it's an adorable dog. But one man's plan to print cancer-killing viruses could change cancer treatment forever.

Lessons on the immune systems and disease. Print and go!

Human activities currently add about nine gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere yearly. Photosynthetic organisms on land and in the ocean absorb about five of those gigatons through the natural uptake of CO2, leaving to humans the task of dealing with the rest. But no matter how much carbon there is, capturing it and preventing it from reentering the atmosphere is an immense engineering challenge; even today's best technology is orders of magnitude less effective than photosynthesis at trapping atmospheric carbon.

In order to be useful in treating human infections, antibiotics must selectively target bacteria for eradication and not the cells of its human host. Indeed, modern antibiotics act either on processes that are unique to bacteria--such as the synthesis of cell walls or folic acid--or on bacterium-specific targets within processes that are common to both bacterium and human cells, including protein or DNA replication. Following are some examples.

However, new research led by Michigan State University psychology professor David Z. Hambrick suggests that, unfortunately for many of us, success isn't exclusively a product of determination - that despite even the most hermitic practice routine, our genes might still leave greatness out of reach.