HIgh school scientists tackle Lyme testing
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A team of public high school students in Georgia faced some skepticism when they decided to try to come up with a way to detect Lyme disease earlier.
But the students at Lambert High School in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, pushed ahead with their idea, using the gene editing technology CRISPR, and took it to the iGEM competition, a sort of science Olympics, in Paris. iGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered Machine and the annual competition has been around for about 20 years.
Now, scientists say the students' groundbreaking work could be a major breakthrough if further testing pans out.
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They teach synthetic biology in High School now?
Wow!
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Attend a regional science fair. You will see many high school (sometimes even middle school) students presenting very advanced biomedical science projects.
I have been volunteering as a judge at a regional science fair for several years now, and each year I volunteered I have been thoroughly impressed by the caliber of the students and the sophistication of the science projects they brought to the fair.
