Girls in STEM at Tulane (GIST) Laboratory Workshop

The O'Connor Research Group is a proud partner of Girls in Science at Tulane.  We have prepared a handout discussing bone health and osteoporosis.  In addition, we have prepared an exciting experiment to demonstrate what we do.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant CBET-1066167.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views on the National Science Foundation.

Healthy Bones for Life: Your Stem Cells at Work
Everybody knows what a bone is.  But why are they important? Where do they come from?  How do they repair themselves when they break?  Discover the amazing power of stem cells, and how we can use them to fight diseases like osteoporosis.

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