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Our Science Fair Project Revolved Around Trying Not to Set the Building on Fire

Mar 11, 2008

Rutgers' Waksman Institute is bringing sequencing and bioinformatics to high school students through their HiGene project. Funded by the National Science Foundation, five high school students studied bacteria that contain a bit of brine shrimp DNA -- they sequenced the bacteria's DNA and compared it to other DNA sequences to predict gene function. The students then presented their work to the NSF.

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