I'm working with a group that's trying to get a community biolab off the ground.

If you haven't heard of community biolabs such as Biocurious and Genspace, they are places where K-12 students, college students, and other members of the community can learn and practice biology in a safe and inexpensive manner ( Read more... )

Is anyone familiar with the use of γ as a symbol for a prefix? I've never come across it before, and according to Wikipedia, γ is used for "antibiotic concentration (1 γ = 1 µg/ml) in microbiology ( Read more... )

Since I seem to be getting so much slack for my last questionable post, I guess I better do something to make up for it ( Read more... )

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we will be using this to finish off out clinical microbiology lectures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EkehFkhWf4&feature=related

Happy birthday, dear old Darwin! You might be dead but your work lives on, even 200 years after you came into the world.

We're having a party at LSU, to celebrate Darwin's birthday. Are you guys doing anything? If so, what?

hello.

I'm in desperated need of the following protocol which can't download via my Uni library.
Can anyone send it to me? pllleeeaaassseee????

Use of cDNA Macroarrays and Gene Profiling for Detection of Effects of Environmental Toxicants
Jason L. Blum, Melinda S. Prucha, Vishal J. Patel and Nancy D. Denslow
Methods in Molecular Biology, Environmental ( Read more... )

Hello.

I am looking for information on the life cycle of phiX174 and/or M13 phages.  Can anyone direct me to interesting papers that would be cool to discuss in class with first year master students?

I have found a few about phiX174 that I think could be useful but are maybe too old.

B A Fane, S Head and M Hayashi from 1992,
S Eisenberg and R ( Read more... )

Hi everybody!
We are thinking of getting an FPLC system for our teaching laboratory so that students can learn how to purify proteins. We've narrowed our choices down to either the Bio-Rad BioLogic LP System or the GE Healthcare's AKTA Explorer . Have any of you used either of these two systems, and if so, what did you think of them? Which ( Read more... )