Geeky Lab T-Shirt – PCR Beads and Me
We’re ready to go. From a Pharmacia Biotech (now GE Healthcare Life Sciences) t-shirt I got during my lab days when I used PCR beads 90% of the time to perform a bajillion genotypes. Tags: pcr, pcr...
View ArticleLab Help at Your Fingertips – OpenWetWare
Laboratories are intimidating places. The glaringly bright fluorescent lights reflecting off the cold linoleum floors, large machines doing things that no mere mortal understands, black countertops...
View ArticleGeeky Lab T-Shirt – NIH Summer Tour
Anyone who’s ever worked in a lab has gotten at least one or two free t-shirts from companies selling lab equipment or some event being held on campus. Here’s an old t-shirt of mine from the summer I...
View ArticleNanosphere DNA Test Using Gold Nanoparticles
A biotech company in Illinois is hoping they have the Midas touch. Nanosphere has created DNA probes made of gold nanoparticles. The Verigene System is meant to “make molecular diagnostic testing...
View ArticleEye on DNA Links for 3 July 2007
Grand Rounds is up at over my med body! Don’t miss the great quips that accompany each link. The ever prolific scientists at deCODE Genetics have found two variants on chromosome 17 that increase...
View Article2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes To Mice Geneticists
Congratulations to Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J Evans who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine today! The announcement was made just minutes ago and their pictures aren’t even...
View ArticleFlickr on DNA: BeadArray Gene Reading Panels
Esther Dyson’s Flickr photostream is one of the few photo feeds I subscribe to because she’s all over the place participating in all sorts of amazingly smart events! Last week, she visited Illumina in...
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