Modern Bioscience and Biotechnology Education and Resources for Educators

Bioscience has developed extremely fast during the last decades. We now know that all living organisms are made of cells and are sharing the same machinery for their most basic functions. Many organisms are single cells, while others are composed of many different cells linked together by intricate systems of communication. Cell divisions are fundamental for life, and the cell is the vehicle for hereditary information stored in DNA molecules. When it became possible to sequence genes and especially the whole human genome, a new era was introduced and evolution could be better understood. Bioscience has become very important in different areas and new questions can be raised and answered. The development of bioinformatics has made it possible to draw conclusions from the huge amount of data that can be rapidly generated. Genes can be modified with a precision that was not for example available in traditional breeding techniques. Many other biological techniques have also been developed where complex intracellular processes can be visualized in real-time and on a high level of resolution. With new advances in imaging techniques, we can now explore functions of the brain. This new information is not only useful in natural science, but is also valuable for issues raised in many aspects of, for example, environmental and social sciences.