Biotech 101 Featured in the Huntsville Times
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The Huntsville Times
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September 13, 2009
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By Patricia McCarter
Times Staff Writer
Trace it back to Frances Bowman’s life science class.
Neil Lamb was a seventh-grader in Chattanooga. He brought in a Ziploc baggie of water like Ms. Bowman instructed. He sat down at a microscope and looked through the eyepiece at a water droplet sandwiched on a slide and … oh, what he saw.
Organisms like he’d never imagined, all swimming around like they had someplace to go.
“I was hooked,” he said.
Lamb - now Dr. Lamb - is director of educational outreach at the HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology. His mission is to kindle those oh-my moments everywhere he goes.
During Tuesday night’s pay-nothing-but-attention Biotech 101 class, in an auditorium of more than 200 curious people who had no obligation to be there except to feed their need to be fascinated...
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