The University welcomed HRH The Countess of Wessex to LifeLab today, Friday 27 June, to officially open the facility that aims to empower school students to take more control over their health.
LifeLab is an innovative education approach which is a collaboration between our University and University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust that enables secondary school pupils to have first-hand experience of scientific approaches at the forefront of modern medicine.
During her visit The Countess of Wessex saw the custom designed laboratory and classrooms in which students,
from schools that have already experienced LifeLab, conducted some of the experiments. These included measuring blood flow through the carotid artery by ultrasound, measuring the influence of nutrition on the chemical structure of DNA and assessing lung function. The Countess of Wessex even tested out her own grip strength.
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