Aline – Biocascades

Hands-on experience for students in our TU Graz labs

Date: 24-25/04/2017 Location: University of Technology Graz, Austria In collaboration with acib we organized taster days for students (13-14 years). After a short presentation about Biotechnology and its applications, the students were divided in small groups and got hands-on experience in our TU Graz labs. They measured pH values of different everyday liquids and learned […]

First $1,000 genome, now DNA-sequencing for anyone – what comes next?

I recently received a Facebook message from a good friend. He’s an electrical engineer and likes to think outside the box. He shared an article termed “Portable DNA Sequencer MinION helps build the internet of living things” [1]. Below he wrote „Soon we share DNA instead of internet articles.” I was confused. The title was […]