You don’t need a degree to do real science.

See how Brittney Knight used Bento Lab to go from poultry enthusiast to running a professional bird sexing laboratory, without formal training in molecular biology.

BeeCode are sequencing and identifying honeybee subspecies in Berlin’s urban areas to promote biodiversity and sustainable beekeeping practices.

Over the past few years, field mycologists (amateur fungal experts) in the UK have been using Bento Lab to help identify fungal biodiversity and characterise new species to the UK and to science.

Dr Josef Vuch studies amphibians living in underground caves around Trieste, Italy. He uses Bento Lab to extract DNA and to prepare DNA barcodes for sequencing.

Participants of YCAM’s Interlab Camp learnt DNA sequencing with Bento Lab and Oxford Nanopore’s MinION, and explored potential links with ethics, art, and design.

David Harries and the Pembrokeshire Fungus Recording Network collect fungus fruit bodies and sequence their DNA barcode. Their data contributes to a better understanding of the relationships between fungus collections in Pembrokeshire, UK.

University student Edoardo Gianni and his friends are working on their own biotech projects outside of the college campus. Edoardo has a passion dinoflagellates, marine plankton that glow at night. He wants to identify the genes that makes them glow.

Gianpaolo Rando is on a mission to understand craft beer at molecular level. Inside a Swiss biohackerspace he prepares DNA libraries for sequencing 1,000 beer microbiomes with the Bento Lab.