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A mobile laboratory is a laboratory that is either fully housed within or transported by a vehicle such as a converted bus, RV, or tractor-trailer. [1][2] Such vehicles can serve a variety of functions, including:
- Science education
- Science research
- Air, water, and soil analysis and monitoring
- Biosafety
Mobile Teaching Laboratories
[edit]A novel use of the mobile laboratory is in science education. In some cases, the mobile laboratory travels to a schools, museums, and other community organizations, providing the school with educational resources they otherwise lack. The mobile laboratory coalition is a loose partnership of groups that provide such services. [3] In other cases, students must also travel to the mobile lab, such as when the lab takes the form of a boat or a train. [4] Mobile laboratories have recently been gaining favor from the National Institutes of Health, in the form of the particular mobile laboratory known as the Biobus, as a way to develop knowledge and understanding regarding biotechnology and medicine amongst the United States population. [5] This concept has begun to spread to countries outside of the US, such as the UK. [6]