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Daily News Lesson June 18 2025

How researchers in Florida are using gene editing to protect the state's orange groves

Learn about how researchers in Florida are using CRISPR gene editing technology to build disease-resistant orange trees
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Daily News Lesson May 19 2025

Breakthrough gene editing treatment helps child born with rare disorder

Doctors used the gene editing technology known as CRISPR to isolate and correct a single mutation.
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Daily News Lesson April 08 2025

How doctors are treating a rise in diabetes in rural areas

Diabetes affects 38 millions Americans — learn more about this disease and how it is treated
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Daily News Lesson November 11 2024

Winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry describes how his work in AI could transform lives

Hear from a Nobel Prize winner on his team's use of artificial intelligence and the future of AI
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Lesson Plan March 14 2024

What is invention education? Explainer and lesson plans where students are the inventors!

Teach students how to design their own inventions that help their communities
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Daily News Lesson January 29 2024

14-year-old scientist Heman Bekele on his quest to fight skin cancer with soap

Learn about an amazing invention by a young scientist
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Post July 24 2023

5 things for students to know about Alzheimer's disease
Learn about a disease that afflicts millions of elderly Americans
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Lesson Plan May 13 2021

Lesson plan: Inventing beetle bike helmets

In this invention lesson, students will make tiny bike helmets based on the diabolical ironclad beetle
Discarded face masks in Wampatuck State Park Hingham. Part of a larger issue about medical trash on Tuesday April 13, 2021 Greg
Daily News Lesson April 23 2021

How pandemic pollution contributes to plastic problem
Learn about how single-use plastics are piling up as a result of the pandemic
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Daily Video May 28 2020

How plasma therapy may help COVID-19 patients
In this NewsHour current events lesson, find out how convalescent plasma from previous COVID patients may help researchers with treatment options.
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