Five unit of “Suitcase Lab” have arrived to Chile for rapid and on-site detection of harmful algae in Chilean coastal waters
During January of 2021, 5 units of “Suitcase Lab” previously introduced in our web sites (https://www.mach-satreps.org/en/topics/news/20201119_1478/), finally have arrived to Chile from Japan to boost our research and outreach activities. The Suitcase Lab, as we call it, consists of an all-in-one portable field tool that allows extract DNA from a sample of seawater containing microalgae. The extracted DNA will be used to amplify DNA fragments that are unique and distinctive to the species, so the algal species in the water sample can be identified with tools inside the suitcase lab. Currently, the 5 units are still in an experimental and validation phase at La Frontera University, given […]