Macrophages engineering design challenge

How might the engineering design process help to design an immune cell to “capture” an invader (bacteria, virus, etc.)? How is the immune cell affected when a mutation occurs?

Learning target

Students will create a prototype of a macrophage to collect a pathogen by using the engineering design process.

Ohio science standards

Biology

• B.H.1 Cellular genetics
• B.H.2 Structure and function of DNA
• B.H.4 Mutations
• B.C.2 Cellular processes
• Scientific and engineering practices

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