Posted on June 30, 2010 by balintblaszlo
Dear colleagues, An excellent tool is available to get a feeling about molecular sizes in Biology. The tool is available here and was developped by “Learn Genetics” program from the University of Utah. You can have a short movie on it below, but please check the original one from here!!!
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Posted on June 8, 2010 by balintblaszlo
On this tutorial you can see an easy way to design oligos for gene synthesis, or in other words Gene design. The description is based on the Instructional Videos from the iGEM website! Gene design in less than 10 minutes! Good luck!!! Some usefull tools: 1. Gene design web page 2. Tools at DNA20 3. [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2009 by balintblaszlo
Considering that swine flu is here everywhere and many became interested in viruses, I compiled here a few videos that might give you an update about viruses, virology, vaccine production and how a vaccine acts. Feedback and questions are welcome at balintblaszlo(at)labtutorials(dot)org Regards, Balint. Where are the swine flu cases? See actual status here or [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2009 by balintblaszlo
When I first heard about the Polymerase Chain Reaction my first association was with the atomic bomb chain reaction. You know probably from your studies: the labile Uranium if receives a neutron it transformed to a stable Uranium isotope while several new neutrons are released. If these newly release neutrons meet novel labile Uranium atoms [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2009 by balintblaszlo
Green lights in the dark When someone first shows up in our lab, the prime goal I set up for him or her is to make “green cells” - I mean to introduce a Green Fluorescent Protein into a mammalian cell culture. In order to be able to perform this one has to know some basic molecular [...]
Filed under: DNA, GFP, RNA, animation, cell, molecular biology, plasmid, transfection | Tagged: GFP, Green fluorescent protein, DNA, RNA, Transcription, Translation, Central Dogma, Jellyfish, DNAses, EDTA, DNA isolation, FRET | 4 Comments »