Kit Makes CRISPR Education Affordable and Accessible to High School Students
September 26, 2024| |
An inexpensive kit called CRISPRkit developed by Stanford undergraduate students brings hands-on lessons in gene editing technology to high school classrooms.
The CRISPRkit contains all the materials needed to conduct a CRISPR experiment in the classroom at about US$2 per kit (or approximately US$40 for materials for an entire classroom). The results of the experiment can be analyzed solely with a smartphone camera and the CRISPRkit website.
In a paper published in Nature Communications authored by Stanley Qi, associate professor of bioengineering in the schools of Engineering and Medicine, Qi lab members Matthew Lau and Marvin Collins, and others brought attention to the potential of CRISPRkit to bring modern biology advances to the classroom.“Our goal is to democratize biology,” said Lau. “The demand is there – this could serve as a model to bring these kinds of opportunities to classrooms.” He added that the kit is a major opportunity to teach something about biology in a way students can work with and understand.
For more details, read the article in Stanford Report.
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