Science is a Mug's Game
Hooray!!!
Something I did this week was not a complete failure! It's not a huge thing - the bacteria took up some plasmid that I wasn't sure if I had or not and grew on selective agar plates. This means that the bacteria are expressing a protein that allows them to grow in the presence of an antibiotic, which means that they carry the plasmid I am trying to amplify. One small step for Joolya; one extremely small step for science. Possibly a nano-step. Possibly a Planck step. (Email me if you got that joke.)
In other news, it is raining and the coffee cart in the lobby of my building is not yet operational.
Something I did this week was not a complete failure! It's not a huge thing - the bacteria took up some plasmid that I wasn't sure if I had or not and grew on selective agar plates. This means that the bacteria are expressing a protein that allows them to grow in the presence of an antibiotic, which means that they carry the plasmid I am trying to amplify. One small step for Joolya; one extremely small step for science. Possibly a nano-step. Possibly a Planck step. (Email me if you got that joke.)
In other news, it is raining and the coffee cart in the lobby of my building is not yet operational.
posted by Joolya at
2:32 PM
3 Comments:
Congrats on the transformation! Are you using Amp or Kan?
h = 6.6261e-34 Jxs
Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with your blog. Will you forgive me?
it is indeed a very small step!
ben: i would never alienate my readership. ;)
Amp.
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