A strand of saliva, a plate of edamame, and a DNA amplifier — three key ingredients Boston area high school students will need to trace their maternal ancestry and detect genetic modification in food this fall.
The first two are easy enough, but few public high schools would purchase an $8,000 piece of equipment for two weeks’ worth of laboratory work.
Now, there’s help for some area schools. Tufts University is lending $40,000 worth of scientific equipment this fall to four area high schools, as part of a new collaboration designed to provide students with hands-on experience with the latest lab technologies.