On November 19th, I made my way down to Cape Cod. First stop was the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) to spend an entire day working with the new ABE tech, Hege Lizarralde. We reviewed good practices in kit assembly, storage options, and even worked on a small experiment to get the digest of...

The Life Sciences Outreach (LSO) Program at Harvard University has a unique partnership with the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. As the school's proximity to Harvard is nothing short of neighboring, LSO is able to host CRLS's entire junior class over two visits to the Science Center Undergraduate teaching laboratory over one academic year. For two days in December and two days in May, over 400 students call the lab their classroom. CRLS utilizes our space, equipment, reagents, and expertise to take their students through the wet lab portion of our mtDNA PCR lab, supported by the Amgen...