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Article: Teens get biotech experience with internships in California.
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- July 17, 2004
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By Jackie Burrell, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 17--Impossibly young, white lab-coated scientists hunch over pipettes, filling gleaming trays with gel and DNA fragments.
It's not so impossible. These technicians at Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek actually are just 18 years old. A contingent at Berkeley's Bayer Corporation are 17 and 18. And young DeAndre McDavid, an autopsy intern at Kaiser Hospital's morgue, starts his senior year at Oakland's Life Academy this fall.
The Bay Area is reshaping vocational education on both sides of the Caldecott Tunnel, as clusters of biotechnology ...