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Tuesday, December 02, 2003

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DIY DNA analysis kit, a must-have this Christmas

This kit from Discovery Kids -- the first to feature a bona fide centrifuge and electrophoresis chamber -- will turn your kid on to the intricacies of genetics. Realistic lab equipment transforms the kitchen into a forensics lab, where your breakfast-bar biologist can extract clumps of real DNA from fruits and vegetables or solve "crimes" by revealing DNA "fingerprints" -- telltale blue protein stripes in a gel mixture.

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