The city became a laboratory for school reform, with experimental programmes paid for by philanthropic organisations.

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How does your school laboratory promote activities that relate to and foster STEM education?

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In Hambrecht's view consumers' and policymakers' command of chemistry is frequently limited to vague memories of exploding beakers and funny smells in a high school laboratory.

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We spoke about what Lego bricks have to do with STEM education, and how Cathy plans on inspiring the kids in her school laboratory to be the engineers of the future.

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Professor David Sinclair also works in Boston at an ageing laboratory at Harvard Medical School.

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Patrick McNamara, for example, is the head of the Evolutionary Neurobehaviour Laboratory at Boston University's School of Medicine.

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A., nutrition research manager at Harvard Medical School's Channing Laboratory.

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To find out more, researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine took some A. aegypti mosquitoes in the laboratory, and tempted them with a human arm covered in Deet.

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School children from years 10-13 joined with eminent scientists to attend lectures, speeches, laboratory demonstrations and discussion groups.

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Gary Thorgaard, director of Washington State University's School of Biological Sciences and a co-author of the paper, says the experiments in his laboratory and others have shown it is possible to reverse the sex of trout embryos through the use of hormones.

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