Click to Cure - Zooniverse Biology
If your IB Biology class has just finished the Cells topic and has spent some time looking at the stages of mitosis in a microscope then your students could be ready to participate in real biological research. Physics students have been looking for exoplanets for a while on Zooniverse and now it is the turn of the biologists.
In collaboration with Cancer Research UK, Click to Cure (http://www.clicktocure.net) wants to use the power of the Zooniverse to speed up trials of new cancer treatments. By spending a few minutes looking at microscope images, and answering a few simple questions, students can assist in the effort to find cures for different cancers.
It takes human intuition and the human eye to spot patterns, defects and anomalies; computer algorithms just aren’t good enough. The process is slow for a lone scientist, but with the collective power of hundreds of thousands of IB students, we can speed up this research by years.
Why not set this as holiday homework and turn your IB Biology students into Biologists. It might even look good on a university ap