In a pair of landmark studies, two groups of scientists announced Tuesday that they have reprogrammed human skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells, whose potential to mature into any other kind of cell in the body may ultimately prove key to curing a number of diseases. CNN July 20
So the two independent groups [...]
The press, and the bioethics people, and the religious groups, and the Pro-whatever groups, seem to have this fascination with cloning, and especially human cloning.
After reading my lecture notes a few times, I suddenly saw this sentence “She (Dolly) was not genetically modified, but was a clone”. Now what is so amazing about this sentence [...]
Here’s more information on the online DNA test that was in a previous post. I went to look up their website, the deCODE Diagnostic company.
Headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, deCODE is a biopharmaceutical company applying [...]
i dont like coomassie blue staining. don’t like the smell of the methanol. (and also the acetic acid, but that’s not so bad) and the idea of formaldehyde…
sheesh
did i ever mention that they should teach students how to present nice tables. seriously they should teach that at a lower level, maybe secondary school or JC. [...]
methinks that they suck big time, because they are troublesome, require many washes, uses up alot of buffer, uses pathetically slow gravity-drip method, and just suck.
gah.
parce-que. highly unlikely that I would get to stay at Cité Université, coz apparently that place is catered to masters students and above, and those doing arts, or nationalities which have houses there, or sigh. but it’s such a nice place. no fair. grumble.
perhaps i’ll have to take Crous-Paris, or find some appartement (horror!).
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and clontech [...]