It’s time we empower everybody with biotechnology
Biobuilder in the States (high school)
To “empower everybody with biotechnology,” she believes, will create an “interested and engaged citizenry” able to address and resolve problems relevant to their lives.
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Biotechnology now stands where computational technology did in the 1980s. Already, synthetic biologists and biotechnicians are revolutionizing fields from medicine to agriculture—not just in well-funded laboratories, but in garages and basements. Biology education needs to catch up, to provide students with biological tools to solve problems, rather than frustrating them with predetermined labs and memorization. Headed by Kuldell, BioBuilder promises a way forward: a new teaching method to relay the necessary biological principles through the lens of engineering and self-driven learning.
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