In this Building with Biology activity, visitors explore the potential for engineered viruses to deliver beneficial, targeted genetic information to sites throughout the body, and discuss their hopes and concerns regarding this technology. Visitors create a model of the technology by combining multiple strands of yarn (DNA) and placing them in takeout containers covered in instructions (viruses' protein shells, or capsids).
Topics: Disease and Medicine, Materials, Tools, and Applications, Society, Policy, and Economics
Audience: Ages 4 – Adult
Product Category: Short Activities
Last updated: May 23, 2016