--- title: Medical Lab: How to Fit One in Your Pocket description: How to fix state government, reinventing school in New Orleans, the rise of microcareers, how to fit a medical lab in your pocket, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3915800/medical-lab-pocket/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-10T16:01:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:07.490Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Fit a Medical Lab In Your Pocket og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3915800/medical-lab-pocket/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Fit a Medical Lab In Your Pocket twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Fit a Medical Lab in Your Pocket by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 10, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 10, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**How to fit an entire medical lab in your pocket.**](http://actu.epfl.ch/news/a-pocket-sized-medical-lab-being-tested-at-the-chu/) By Cécilia Carron at EPFL **2\.** [**In New Orleans, the future of education is now.**](http://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2015/05/29/new%5Forleans%5Fhas%5Fdeveloped%5Fa%5Fnew%5Fnormal%5Fin%5Feducation%5F1199.html) By Richard Whitmire in RealClearEducation **3\.** [**The full time job is dead. Welcome to the age of microcareers.**](https://medium.com/backchannel/the-full-time-job-is-dead-b9528bda1c87) By Kevin Maney in Backchannel **4\.** [**Forty-nine states are doing government wrong.**](http://www.governing.com/blogs/bfc/col-bicameral-state-legislatures-ineffiency-duplication.html) By Charles Chieppo in Governing **5\.** [**Tiny injectable electronics will monitor and treat brain injuries.**](http://phys.org/news/2015-06-electronics-basic-neuroscience-treatment-neuro-degenerative.html) By Phys.org  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3915800/medical-lab-pocket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3915800/medical-lab-pocket/"},"headline":"How to Fit a Medical Lab in Your Pocket","datePublished":"2015-06-10T16:01:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:07.490Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3915800/medical-lab-pocket/","keywords":["Innovation","Jobs","Brain"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3915800/medical-lab-pocket/","name":"How to Fit a Medical Lab in Your Pocket"}}]}] ```