Jaeyoung K Jung, Blake J Rasor, Grant A Rybnicky, Adam D Silverman, Janet Standeven, Robert Kuhn, Teresa Granito, Holly M Ekas, Brenda M Wang, Ashty S Karim, Julius B Lucks, Michael C Jewett
As the field of synthetic biology expands, the need to grow and train science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) practitioners is essential. However, the lack of access to hands-on demonstrations has led to inequalities of opportunity and practice. In addition, there is a gap in providing content that enables students to make their own bioengineered systems. To address these challenges, we develop four shelf-stable cell-free biosensing educational modules that work by simply adding water and DNA to freeze-dried crude extracts of non-pathogenic Escherichia coli ...
September 12, 2023: ACS Synthetic Biology