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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Your Blue Room.

Monday, February 27, 2006

Walking home today, oblivious to the rest of the world (or pretending to be) , hidden in my sphere of in-ear plugs and music, my playlist finally reached the Passengers track “Your Blue Room”. It’s been a while since last time. But it happens everytime, strong as no other tune: I’m back in 1995. In [...]

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Functional food – and beyond!

Monday, February 27, 2006

You have probably heard the phrase functional food. In Norway, the government have quite strict rules of what modifications are allowed to food and beverage. I don’t know the details, but so far I’ve only seen orange juice with artificially added calcium, milk with vitamin D, yoghurt with the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG), etc. [...]

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…or lack of.

Monday, February 27, 2006

That is, lack of successfull transformation. I got my colonies on the LB agar, and was happy, everything going on as planned. But, darn, something wasn’t right. Using restriction enzymes to cut the new plasmids, checking if my genes actually had been incorporated, showed … nothing. I’ve spent the last days trying to find out [...]

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Transformation

Monday, February 13, 2006

I’ve learned a lot these first weeks. And the feeling of being totally lost is gradually fading. Still, talking about green fingers, my head definitely feels green sometimes… Anway. I got the primers. I did PCR. I did gel electrophoresis, isolating the genes I multiplied. Today I started the transformation progress, using the Zero Blunt [...]

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