Detecting Disease exhibit

TYPE: Educational Resources
AUDIENCE: Ages 15 - Adult
TOPIC: Nanotechnology
An exhibit that was part of the Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition that introduces new ways of diagnosing and monitoring disease by using nanomaterials.
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DESCRIPTION

This exhibit introduces new ways of diagnosing and monitoring disease by using nanomaterials. Visitors conduct a lab test by select one of three sick patients and using a real pipette to add the patient’s blood sample to a glass slide (the GreeneChip). An on-screen animation explains what happens at the nanoscale, and the visitor is presented with a diagnosis.

This exhibit was part of the Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition which toured the Arkansas Discovery Network beginning in 2010.

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  • Image of a large interactive exhibit that features a display monitor connected to a hands-on rotating patient chart that allows guests to pretend to pipette a blood sample onto a microscope slide enhanced with nanotechnology
  • Viewing the Detecting Disease exhibit from the left/center and closer up
  • Viewing the Detecting Disease exhibit from the center
  • Image of a large interactive exhibit that features a display monitor connected to a hands-on rotating patient chart that allows guests to pretend to pipette a blood sample onto a microscope slide enhanced with nanotechnology
  • Viewing the Detecting Disease exhibit from the left/center and closer up
  • Viewing the Detecting Disease exhibit from the center

DESCRIPTION

This exhibit introduces new ways of diagnosing and monitoring disease by using nanomaterials. Visitors conduct a lab test by select one of three sick patients and using a real pipette to add the patient’s blood sample to a glass slide (the GreeneChip). An on-screen animation explains what happens at the nanoscale, and the visitor is presented with a diagnosis.

This exhibit was part of the Nanotechnology: What's the Big Deal? exhibition which toured the Arkansas Discovery Network beginning in 2010.

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OBJECTIVES

BIG IDEA

Researchers are working to better detect disease with nanotechnology.

LEARNING GOALS

  • Diseases can be detected before a patient has any noticeable symptoms.

  • A patient has a better chance of beating a disease if treatment starts very early in the disease's progression.

  • The GreeneChip tests for many different diseases at the same time using genetic material from a pathogen "library" and a sample from the patient.

NANO CONTENT MAP

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, and nanoengineering lead to new knowledge and innovations that weren't possible before.

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TYPE:
Exhibits
AUDIENCE:
Ages 15 - Adult
LANGUAGES:
English Spanish
ADDITIONAL TOPICS: Engineering and Technology Nanotechnology Life Sciences Health and Medicine
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Credits

YEAR CREATED
2008
PROJECT
OWNING INSTITUTION

OMSI

FUNDING

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

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Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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