{"id":181034,"date":"2024-01-21T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/breaking-down-life-into-dna"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:34:08","slug":"breaking-down-life-into-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/breaking-down-life-into-dna","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down Life Into DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-down-life-into-dna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As one of the few schools on Long Island offering the AP Capstone program in their curricula, Patchogue-Medford High School provides various STEM opportunities for its students.<\/p>\n<p>From Brookhaven National Laboratory to Stony Brook University right at our fingertips, the possibilities are endless. For instance, on December 8 th, four AP Research students joined Dr. Gatz in spending the day at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cshl.edu\/\"> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory<\/a> to conduct the necessary experiments for their research papers.<\/p>\n<p>Senior, Carlo Costigliola, and Junior, Isaac Varghese, have decided to focus their research on DNA barcoding. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ibol.org\/about\/dna-barcoding\/#:~:text=DNA%20barcoding%20is%20a%20method, library%20to%20provide%20an%20ID.\"> International Barcode of Life<\/a>, \u201cDNA barcoding is a method of specimen identification using short, standardized segments of DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the few schools on Long Island offering the AP Capstone program in their curricula, Patchogue-Medford High School provides various STEM opportunities for its students. From Brookhaven National Laboratory to Stony Brook University right at our fingertips, the possibilities are endless. For instance, on December 8 th, four AP Research students joined Dr. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}