CRISPRkit has been developed by scientists at Stanford University, California, to make CRISPR experiments both affordable and accessible.
A CRISPR experiment in the classroom costs about $2 per kit and the results can be analysed using a smartphone camera and the CRISPRkit website.
'… this could serve as a model to bring these kinds of opportunities to classrooms…' said Dr Stanley Qi, co-first author of the paper published in Nature Communications, and associate professor of bioengineering in the schools of Engineering and Medicine at Stanford, 'This kit is a major opportunity to teach something about biology in a way students can work with and understand – and I hope this serves as a model for what could happen in the future.'
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