This past week a few lab members and summer interns headed down to the national mall to test out kit S-30 in a unique place. Under the sweltering heat, interns collected bacterial swabs and water samples of various fountains and…
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Monumental Microbes
We chose one of the hottest weeks on record to tour some of DC's most iconic sites and to investigate some of its most diverse and under-the-radar inhabitants. We used Edvotek's Kit S-30 (How Clean is the Water We Drink…
What happens when PCR becomes present (it might be even better than meditation.)
PCR exponentially amplifies copies of a DNA sequence. It’s great at producing more DNA for subsequent analysis. For example PCR combined with gel electrophoresis can tell us whether a particular loci is present or absent (Figure 1). It’s also somewhat…
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Are you gearing up for end of term exams?
Take a break and read about horizontal gene transfer in the ultimate survivor - the moss piglet. (After all cramming is a little like genetic transformation.) Recently, tardigrades (known by some as moss piglets and others as water bears) have…