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The Amgen Foundation allocated $2.5 million to the Amgen Biotech Experience, a program that provides real-world biotech lab experience to middle and high schools in U.S. and U.K. communities and will engage more than 50,000 students this year, according to the organization. EDC, a nonprofit that creates learning opportunities around the world, will oversee the program's implementation and facilitate its continued development. Utilizing Nobel-prize-winning discoveries to prepare a recombinant DNA molecule that carries a gene for red fluorescent protein, the foundation said students follow many of the steps biotechnology researchers use to produce medicines.