Andrew Porterfield
Andrew is a marketing editor for Life Technologies, and started writing about science when people used electric typewriters. He's working on an M.S. in biotechnology from the University of Maryland.
Recent Articles By Andrew
How Thermophiles Survive, Part II: DNA
by Andrew on September 2, 2009
In part I, I answered the question, "How do proteins in thermophiles survive under high temperatures?"
In this part, I'll look look at how nucleic acids survive -thrive, even- in conditions that are too hot for most of us, but (read on...)
The Secrets of Thermophile Survival: Part I
by Andrew on July 13, 2009
In response to my last article, �The Taq behind PCR�, one of our readers, Bonnie Barrilleaux, asked whether DNA could naturally survive at temperatures that would denature it. It also begged the question; how do (read on...)
The Taq behind PCR
by Andrew on June 10, 2009
Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis is generally credited with inventing the polymerase chain reaction, but his discovery owes a lot to a microbiologist who loved to travel, some refuted assumptions of what can live in hot springs, and a (read on...)
