BioBits: Teaching synthetic biology to K-12 students
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 19:00
in Mathematics & Economics
As biologists have probed deeper into the genetic underpinnings of life, K-12 schools have struggled to provide a curriculum that reflects those advances. Now, a collaboration between the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, MIT, and Northwestern University has developed BioBits, new educational biology kits that teach students the basic principles of molecular and synthetic biology through fun, hands-on genetic experiments without the need for specialized lab equipment, at a fraction of the cost.