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The ABE blog covers biotech and biotech-education news and trends in and beyond the ABE community. Topical posts often include student activities. 

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Pushing the Bounds of Biotech Education: Highlights from the ABE Meeting in Dublin

May 8, 2018

The ABE annual meeting in Dublin was a terrific success, bringing together teachers, site directors, coordinators, and lab technicians, to help chart…

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Keeping Up with Biotech Demand in East Asia: A Conversation with the ABE Hong Kong Team

April 3, 2018

In Hong Kong and much of the broader East Asia area, the educational system is highly focused on exams. Teachers have their hands full just trying to…

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Transforming Practical Classroom Science in the UK: Q&A with British Science Educator Karen Stephens

March 14, 2018

Counting bubbles of oxygen to measure the rate of photosynthesis, estimating the population size of an organism using quadrats – these are some of…

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Expanding Opportunities for Biotechnology Worldwide

March 12, 2018

China recently announced a new strategic plan, stipulating that the biotechnology sector should exceed 4% of gross domestic product by 2020, with 10…

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