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?
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Filed under: Cool stuff, Swine flu, animation, virus | Tagged: animation, flu virus, immune response, Mexican flu, new flu, sanofi, spreading of virus, Swine flu, vaccination, vaccine, Vaccine development, virus | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: DNA, PCR, Polymerase, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Replication, Taq, animation, molecular biology, plasmid | Tagged: 454, chain reaction, critical mass, dNTP, Emulsion PCR, FLX, Geyser, Hot sprigns, Karry Mullis, lagging strand, leading strand, Noble Prize, Okazaki fragments, Polymerase, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Pyrosequencing, Replication, Steamboat, Taq, Thermophylus aquaticus, Yellowstone | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: DNA, GFP, RNA, animation, cell, molecular biology, plasmid, transfection | Tagged: Central Dogma, DNA, DNA isolation, DNAses, EDTA, FRET, GFP, Green fluorescent protein, Jellyfish, RNA, Transcription, Translation | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 19, 2009 by balintblaszlo
At the very end you might ask why is the life in a molecular biology lab so interesting?
We discussed about water, pipettes and we will go on with several topics, but at the very end there is a wonderful, miraculous world. Each cell in our body and each cell in any living organism works based [...]
Filed under: animation, cell | Tagged: cell, DNA, Golgi, Life, Mitochondria, Transcription, Translation | 4 Comments »
