Boyd-Buchanan Students Create Cockroach Biobots In Neuroscience Lab

March 18, 2013 | The Chattanoogan
The Chattanoogan

Boyd-Buchanan AP Biology students are learning about action potentials and nerve transmission in their current study of neuroscience. Jim Marlowe, Boyd-Buchanan?s AP Biology teacher, is using an extremely cutting edge method in his neuroscience lab as he instructs on these topics. His students are studying the brain and developing an understanding of how nerves work using a common cockroach.