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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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