S1E8: Biotech and synbio education, accessibility, and BioBits. Melody chats with Ally Huang from miniPCR.
Biotechnology, including synthetic biology, has traditionally been a resource-heavy field— that’s made it particularly difficult for young students to engage in biology and STEM particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds. In addition, expensive biotech equipment and lack of funding in education have also made access to knowledge and the ability to engineer biological products— whatever they may be— expensive and difficult. Who are the companies and organizations trying to break down these barriers to create more accessible biotech and life sciences tools? In the next few episodes, we'll talk to three organizations in this space of biotech education and accessibility, fueled by similar values as iGEM. For this first episode, my guest is Ally Huang, creator of BioBits and part of the team at miniPCR, looking to increase accessibility to biotech technology and tools particularly for the classroom.
To find out about freeze-dried cell-free technology, a core aspect of the BioBits kit, see the core Cell paper here by Pardee et al. from the Collins Lab at MIT.
To find out more about BioBits and miniPCR check their sites out here:
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