About Bioscience Network

Bioscience Network (BSN) was formed to address concerns over the waning of American educational excellence and the unfulfilled need to better respond to growing global competition, particularly in areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We believe that a solid foundation in these disciplines is critically important to the preparation of our young people for careers in education, research, business and industry. We also believe it is important to empower youngsters from all demographics with the opportunity to participate in technical and professional development appropriate to quality jobs and fulfilling careers.

It has become evident over the past decade that employers across all business sectors recognize the need for a well-trained labor, where "well-trained" includes working knowledge in STEM disciplines. The pace of this need has accelerated in step with new research and discovery, causing challenges to industry in their efforts to locate and recruit a finite labor pool of workers with increasingly specialized training and job skills requirements.

BSN views competencies in the STEM disciplines as core necessities for the advancement of research, clinical and commercial development in the biological and medical sciences. Because of the rapidly evolving vernacular in the biomedical sciences, with highly specialized nomenclature in areas such as genetics, molecular biology and bioinformatics, it is very difficult to present information to a diverse audience with precise and accurate language that is both comprehensible to beginners and engaging to more advanced students, teachers and researchers.

To address this challenge, BSN is developing personalized, inquiry-based approaches tuned to the aptitudes and interests of elementary, middle school and high school students as well as more advanced, career-track participants. Our approach involves the innovative application of technology-based solutions to content creation and delivery, presented in the best form and manner suitable to engage learners with material that is relevant to real-world needs.

It is an enormous challenge to plan and implement timely, responsive and effective change in educational modalities designed to serve the needs and interests of students, educators and public- and private sector stakeholders. As a consequence, BSN has developed a modular approach to building an education-driven global bioscience network. Our initial module, www.stemcellresources.org, is a comprehensive array of web-, classroom- and lab-based resources to provide reliable, objective, science-based information on stem cell research, an explosive and controversial subset of regenerative medicine.

We selected stem cells as an initial beachhead for user-friendly information because of their widespread relevance to the future of medicine, their expanding application to all topics taught in high school molecular biology, and provide scientifically credible information to a field receiving public attention with varying degrees of fact, opinion and misinformation. Among current topics in the biological sciences, stem cell research stands out as an area that demands reliable, digestible information at the most basic and advanced levels.

Upon build-out of the stem cell educational module, we will begin development of other STEM-oriented knowledge banks. Criteria for their identification and development will include examination into new areas of emerging science, discovery and technology where learning materials are lacking or of questionable quality. BSN continually surveys its user base for guidance in the direction of future educational subject matter.

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