Seeding Labs, a non-profit US-based group that works with universities and firms to provide the developing world with second-hand laboratory equipment in good condition, is helping African universities overcome a lack of appropriate technology which hampers their ability to undertake in-depth research. Twenty-two science laboratories at universities in 13 Latin American and African countries have been equipped by Seeding Labs over the past six years. The equipment comes from major biotech and pharmaceutical giants in the United States which donate outdated but functional equipment that would have been dumped in basement storerooms. The organization’s expertise centers on equipment suitable for biological and chemical sciences.

By Staff