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The World’s Fastest Miniprep?

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I love this great time-lapse video entitled “a day in the lab”. If only minipreps were this fast and easy!

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About the author

Nick Oswald

Nick Oswald started Bitesize Bio on a Macbook on his kitchen table in 2007 while in his 7th year of working as a molecular biologist in biotech. He made it his day job in 2010 and has been loving it ever since.

What do you think?

3 comments

  1. from EmWed on

    This guy needs a repeat pipetter!

  2. from Ricardo Vidal on

    Loved this video. He looks pretty fast alright. But nothing looked easy, even at high speed! :)

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