Biotechnology program gives Colorado high school students a head start in booming field

Students at Boulder’s Fairview High School swabbed the inside of their cheeks for a DNA sample and then, using state-of-the-art equipment, learned how to magnify and copy it in a way that would make television’s "CSI" folks proud.

And while these slices of DNA didn’t give up any personal secrets — the lab is purposely designed that way — the process did give students an uncommon, hands-on peek into the burgeoning biotechnology field.

Total hit to the school’s lab budget: zero.

By Kevin Simpson

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