by Liam on September 4, 2008

7+ years' training-a batchelor's and a PhD-and for what? Starting at the bottom in a profession that offers repetitive work, poor pay, long hours and frustratingly hard-to-come-by successes. And to make it worse, you can't afford (read on...)

by Liam on July 29, 2008

Over the years there have been a multitude of methods - ranging from the easy to the downright painful - developed for the preparation of plasmid DNA, but I suspect most of us have only used one , or maybe two, of these in our (read on...)

by Liam on July 23, 2008

You are working late in the lab and you need to do a transformation, but sod it, you don’t have any antibiotic plates on hand. So you go on the hunt to see if there are any secret stashes anywhere in the lab (you can find (read on...)

by Liam on April 28, 2008

I often wonder why it is that molecular biology researchers stubbornly refuse to change 40 year old methods that, while they work, are not as good as newer, faster and cheaper methods out there. I suppose rational scientists (read on...)

by Liam on April 15, 2008

You know those ridiculously priced and throw-away DNA mini, midi and maxi-prep columns? Well the good news is that you can actually re-use them if you are reasonably careful at regenerating them, with this simple and cheap method (read on...)