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The Barcelona Science Park organizes a cycle of workshops on DNA analysis for high school students

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 16.05.2007

The Barcelona Science Park organizes a cycle of workshops on DNA analysis for high school students

Every Thursday during the month of May, the Barcelona Science Park offers a free workshop of experiments targeting high school science students. The initiative, in which researchers from the (IRB Barcelona) participate, is part of the scientific divulgation program of the PCB. It is included within the offer of activities of , a platform created by Barcelona City Council's Institute of Culture in the framework of the celebration of .

The aim of this activity, which is titled “Do Research!”, is to contribute to the amelioration of the scientific culture of young students in a participative and didactic manner in order to promote their interest in research and the projects they carry out at research centers, as well as fomenting vocations in this area.

The two-hour workshops, from 10 to 12 a.m., allow the young people to do two experiments: the first consists in using different biological samples to discover who committed a crime. The practice enables learning how to carry out an electorphoresis. The other experiment invites the participants to obtain their own DNA (lightly scraping their gums with a spatula) and to make an extraction of the genetic material of the cells with different reagents in order to visualize it.

The experiments done in the “Do Research!” workshop are supervised by researchers from IRB Barcelona: Consòl Farrera, who belongs to the Group of Macrophage Biology and Regulation of Genetic Expression and Carles Martínez, from the Group of Metabolic Engineering and Diabetes Therapy.