From July 17-21, eight Wicomico High School students attended the Maryland Action for Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Research at UMES. Topics covered over the course of the week included Going after Breast Cancer, Animal Behavior, Using History to Learn about HIV, Stem Cells, Antimicrobrials, Mechanisms in Prostate Cancer, Components of Physical Fitness and Testing, and Career Options/College Readiness.
The students engaged in a variety of hands-on lab activities gaining skills in microscopy, cell imaging, cell culturing, classical and operant conditioning, micro pipetting, cell assay and its applications, bioinformatics, colorimetric analysis, and various tests of physical fitness.
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