Viirtual laboratory sites can be hosted in the cloud, increasing the accessibility of lab equipment to under-resourced districts. iLabCentral, for example, is home to more than 7,000 experiments that can be accessed from any device. The emergence of cloud-centric mobile devices such as Google’s Chromebook, an inexpensive laptop that relies on ubiquitous connectivity and cloud-based software and storage, is ushering in a new era of equity and access.
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