Our @theBentoLab is going strong and @nanopore seq starts soon for #coral #microbiome 🤙🏼🤙🏼 pic.twitter.com/cELhlVkwKu
— Hollie Putnam (@HolliePutnam) June 5, 2019
Take your lab wherever you go
The mobile genomics setup. Combines centrifuge, PCR, and gel visualisation. Portable and ready-to-go.
Take your lab wherever you go
The mobile genomics setup. Combines centrifuge, PCR and gel visualisation. Portable and ready-to-go.
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DNA Barcoding
PCR complete & it’s time to see if we have anplified any 🍄🧬!@theBentoLab @BritMycolSoc pic.twitter.com/LVxgMSbSj7
— Lost & Found Fungi (@LostFoundFungi) April 19, 2019
Hands-on education
One of the most impressive pieces of equipment we have are @theBentoLab boxes. These devices function as a portable molecular biology lab, and combine five pieces of equipment into one! 🧪 pic.twitter.com/POOkn5DCpQ
— Monash Tech School (@MonashTS) June 12, 2019

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Instead, let us look at how movements like Arduino or Raspberry Pi are empowering citizens to co-create and be technology-literate. By building a diverse community around inclusive and accessible molecular biology, we want to enable professionals and non-professionals to engage with genetics in an open and responsible way. This is for everybody: curious makers, ambitious students, innovative artists and cutting-edge scientists. Find out more about how you can get hands-on with genetics and help us build a better future for biology.
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Update: Bento Lab Firmware v1.13
We’re excited to announce the release of a new firmware release for Bento Lab. This update enables running multiple modules at the same time, as well as many more improvements. We highly recommend all Bento Lab users to update their software as soon as possible.



Bento Lab Wins Good Design Award 2020
Bento Lab received a Good Design Award Gold Accolade in the Product Design Medical and Scientific category. The annual Good Design Awards is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious international Awards for design and innovation.



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