technology

Portable molecular-biology lab

Compact, classroom- or field-deployable devices bundling PCR, gel electrophoresis or other molecular-biology hardware into a single portable unit.

Where it's used

CRISPR educational kits
Classroom and community-lab kits that let students run a real or simulated CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing workflow — Amino Labs' bacterial genetic-engineering kits, Edvotek's CRISPR simulation and gene-therapy kits, miniPCR bio's curricular materials, and Bento Bio's portable Bento Lab used in school gene-editing academies — distinct from the cheaper cheek-cell DNA-extraction kit category, which does not touch genome editing.
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