Week 11 of 22
OCTOBER 16 TO 20
Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.
Should patients get raw genetic results directly, without a clinician interpreting first? Access against the risk of misreading something frightening.
Amplifying a tiny amount of DNA into enough to work with, and how the primers decide which region gets copied.
Running a gel. DNA is negatively charged so it moves toward the positive end, and smaller fragments travel further through the gel.
ME
I punctured the bottom of the well. That sample is gone and you get one try.
Thousands of expression measurements at once instead of one gene at a time. The scale is the point and also the problem, because with that many measurements some will look significant by chance.
Quiz on the methods so far. This is where the fifteen minutes a night either paid off or did not. For me it mostly did.