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Mrs. Curry from Olathe, KS is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Engineering a Living Medicine for Patients with PKU.

Help me give my students by giving the gift of exploring phenylketonuria (PKU) and how genetic engineering a chromosome can be used to have bacteria help people with PKU.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Curry's classroom raised $176

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My Project

Students will be using the kit from Science Take-Out called "Engineering a Living Medicine". In this kit, students will explore a scenario where a woman has phenylketonuria (PKU). She is unable to make an enzyme to process an amino acid found in most food called phenylalanine.

Students explore how genetically engineering a chromosome can help people with PKU.

Genetically engineering can be used to turn bacteria to live in her digestive tract to produce enzymes that help keep phenylalanine levels down. Students use this experiment to model the safety and effectiveness of the genetically engineered chromosome to be used as a "living medicine".

Mrs. Curry Olathe Northwest High School Grades 9-12 Olathe, KS View local requests

More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
KIT ENGINEERING A MEDICINE-10PK • Ward's Science $84.58 1 $84.58
KIT ENGINEERING A MEDICINE-10PK REFILL • Ward's Science $25.46 1 $25.46

Materials cost

$110.04

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $7.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.65

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$149.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.37

Total project goal

$175.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $175.82

1 Donor

-$85.00

Donations toward project cost

-$79.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.00

match offer

-$82.88

Match offer toward project cost

-$70.45

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.43

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.94

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 $0.00

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