Kevin Fitzgerald (@FitzgeraldBio) profile picture

Purdue - Class of 2020 - Bioengineering Northwestern Biological and Chemical Engineering

Joined February 2020
This could be a massive help for new iGEM teams, those kits aren't cheap. @iGEM
We reuse our Qiagen columns (any kind) without compromising the yield and any carry over DNA contaminations by soaking the columns in 1M HCl overnight and washing the coumns with 5X distilled water (1 column volume each time). Saves money and plastics.
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Technically lava can kill coronavirus, but there's a good reason why no-one is using it in the fight against the ongoing pandemic: nothing else would survive the encounter with molten rock either. on.forbes.com/60171fRZF
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POV: You're at a gender reveal party and the couple tells you they've baked a cake to look like the baby's chromosomes. You expect X or Y. They bring it out. It is a circle. Their child is an engineered strain of E. coli K12. You are ecstatic.
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As per the reviewer’s request teapaw.org/jehaddus1taak/status/1…
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