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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…
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…
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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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…
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