The ABC of DNA – University of Reading
03 November 1998After a nationwide search for Britain's most innovative products, a DNA test kit for schools developed by The University of Reading's National Centre for Biotechnology Education has been granted Millennium Product status by the Design Council. The news was announced by Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson at the CBI Conference in Birmingham on Monday 2 November. The centre's invention is already used by a quarter of UK secondary schools and colleges, and is sold throughout the world. It has now been short-listed for inclusion in the Millennium Dome in Greenwich.