Take the power
of PCR anywhere

A portable lab with a
thermocycler, 13k rpm centrifuge,
and gel electrophoresis

Take the power
of PCR anywhere

A portable lab with a
thermocycler, 13k rpm centrifuge,
and gel electrophoresis

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Genomic Epidemiology

Dive into the critical advances made in Peru towards cost-effective COVID testing and expanding global access to decentralized pandemic detection with open source approaches.

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Safe Drinking Water

Discover the highschooler working with a professor at the Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety to tackle water quality testing using a rapid onsite workflow.

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Monitoring with MinION

Make waves in biodiversity with on-site sequencing, like this team using MinION and our portable PCR workstation aboard a dive boat in Singapore sampling seawater.

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Field Sequencing

Navigate genomics in jungles. Find out how this researcher is transforming ape health monitoring with onsite DNA barcoding of nematodes, using Bento Lab and MinION.

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Prepare samples for field sequencing

Pair Bento Lab with MinION from Oxford Nanopore Technologies

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