more genetics
2000-08-21 17:17:38+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Following up on that mention of A Low Cost Approach to PCR yesterday, three Scientific American articles: Spooling the Stuff of Life, Sorting Molecules with Electricity and PCR at Home. It's a shame that the DNA for anything interesting has roughly the same information content as a complete human, 'cause there are a lot of hobbiests who play with things like flowers and yeasts for brewing and such who have the motivation to really contribute to our knowledge if some of this stuff works its way down to the level that amateurs can explore it.