‘No practicals in the lab? At home then!’

When his practical could no longer go ahead in the lab, assistant professor Vittorio Saggiomo (BioNano Technology) sent his students a mini-lab in a box so they could still carry out the practical themselves at home. ‘I had to adapt the assignment a bit, because you are posting 40 boxes full of chemicals,’ says Saggioma. ‘I left out the arsenic.’

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