Looking for a supplemental hands-on activity with the immune system in your course?
Try the FREE online interactive Immunology Virtual Lab from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
It covers these concepts:
- The basis of humoral immunity
- The foundation for ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay)
- Potential errors in conducting an ELISA
- Sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test
What can we use from this in teaching undergraduate A&P?
- Link to this virtual lab activity from your online syllabus, course web page, or LMS (or in an email or tweet to students)
- If you want to give course points for the lab, consider an online quiz or lab report submitted through your learning management system (LMS) or emailed to you.
- Gives students a "real life" clinical lab application for the concepts they are learning in A&P.
- Provides an immunology lab option for online/hybrid courses or wet labs that don't have funding for immunology experiments.
Want to know more?
Immunology Virtual Lab
- BioInteractive. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Accessed 16 Sep 2014.
- This virtual lab teaches the procedures of performing an ELISA test to determine whether a particular antibody is present in a patient's blood sample.
- my-ap.us/YPWv3f
ELISA
- MedlinePlus. National Library of Medicine. Accessed 16 Sep 2014
- Brief overview of what ELISA is. You can link your students to this as a brief intro to the virtual lab.
- my-ap.us/1o1dVjg
BioInteractive Virtual Labs
- BioInteractive. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Accessed 16 Sep 2014.
- List of all the FREE virtual labs offered by HHMI's BioInteractive project.
- my-ap.us/1wAX92q
Immunity Topics
- Kevin Patton. The A&P Professor. Various dates.
- List of previous blog posts on the topic of immunity.
- my-ap.us/XdWVyO
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