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British Teen Builds DNA Testing Analyzer in His Bedroom, Wins Award as UK Young Engineer of 2013

PCR testing moves out of the clinical pathology laboratory and into a teen-aged boy’s bedroom laboratory

In a demonstration of how evolving technologies make it easier and cheaper to operate clinical laboratories, a teen-age boy in Yorkshire, England, has built his own DNA analyzer and identified the gene mutation that gives his brother red hair.

That demonstration allowed Fred Turner, age 17, to silence the endless teasing from friends about how he and his red-haired brother, Gus, probably had different fathers. It also won for Fred the award of “UK Young Engineer of the Year 2013.” (more…)

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