honors biology news projects

BIOLOGY IN THE NEWS PROJECTS

1st HOUR	Dylan & Connor- Flesh eating bacteria	Sam & Alex- Chernobyl
Cassie & Brianna- What is happening to honeybees?	Elise & Riley- Performance enhancing drugs at the Olympics	Dillon- Avian flu in SD
Jake- Should we bring back extinct animals?	Sophie- Can genetic editing cure sickle cell anemia?	Dhwani & Grace - Can polio cure cancer?
Emma- Can we learn to talk to animals?	Kalli- Can pets improve mental health?	Tate & Jack- Door to Hell
Tasnim & Kalani- Do cell phones cause cancer?	Jenny- Do vaccines cause autism?	Hossam & Seth- Tuskeegee Syphilis study
Grace & Sienna- Mad Cow disease	Cain & Matt H- B-A-N-A-N-A-S	Nolan- Three Mile Island
Macey- Yucca Mountain

2nd HOUR	Morgan- What happened at Three Mile Island?	Kyle & Braydon- Stem cells to organs
Aarushi & Sheila- Pet therapy	Ally & Marah- What is epigenetics?	Parks & Riley- What happened at Chernobyl?
Isaac- Should we make a colony on Mars?	Bailie & Sam- Do cell phones cause cancer?	Anna- Mad Cow disease
Hannah & Rebecca- Can we learn to talk to animals?	Megan- Did doctors really let patients die?	Carolyn & Kiana- Honeybees
Michael & Matt C- Can you control robotic arms with your mind?	Paul- Tesla electric cars	Taelyn- AIDS vaccine
Hanna & Peyton- What is Yucca Mountain?	Bastienne- Henrietta Lacks & HeLa cells	Joey- Should we clone extinct animals?
James- First warm-blooded fish discovered

6th HOUR	Anna- Love Canal	Autumn- Tuskegee Syphilis study
Carissa- Face transplants	Jenna- Benefits/risks of GMO's	Sidney & Sam- Is invisibility possible?
Jordyn- BPA & its effects on hormones	Rachel- Ebola in the eye	Kendra & Grayson- Can we learn to talk to animals?
Bella- Yucca Mountain	Bridget- Why don't bananas reproduce sexually?	Morgan & Piper- Should we clone extinct animals?
Olivia- Can we use stem cells to grow replacement parts?	Payton & Lauren- Can pets improve mental health?	Kurt- Can gene therapy cure diabetes?
Kia- Antibiotic resistant bacteria	Karlee & Annika- Detecting eye cancer with cell phones	Nadia & Keller- Tesla electric car
Riley & Jameson Flesh eating bacteria	Erik- Do cell phones cause cancer?	Rylee & Cassidy- Mad Cow Disease

7th HOUR	Kyle- Flesh eating bacteria	Cole & Brennan Performance enhancing drugs at the Olympics
Jon J- Chernobyl meltdown	Maret- Is invisibility possible?	Derek- Three Mile Island
Lauren- Tesla electric cars	Matt & Joey- Is a colony on Mars possible ?	Alex- Ebola in body after cure
Jessica & Namra- Do cell phones cause cancer?	Jacob & Joe- Should we clone extinct animals?	George- Benefit/risks of GMO's
Ariel- Can we learn to talk to animals?	Adam- Can we control robotic arms with our mind?	Britta- Mad Cow disease
Lindsey- Curing diabetes with gene therapy	Carson- Privately funded space travel	Heather- Should we make a colony on Moon/Mars?
Isabel & Wendy- Love Canal	Nick & William- Rock eating bacteria	Ben & Hunter- Why is the SETI institute looking for ET?
Sauda- Yucca Mountain

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