Hope everyone has been having a great 1st week doing research!
I’m learning something new everyday from my mentor, I’m stunned by how patient and insightful she is.
This week we did a new lab practice everyday! Today we set our gel electrophoresis and set the current, waited 75 minutes to see our results and 2 out of 3 worked so we set another mid day waited 80 minutes on this one, unfortunately again 2 out of 3. We brain stormed the possible errors and set another to try tomorrow morning.
If at first you don’t succeed try and try again! See you guys tomorrow!
Love electrophoresis! Good luck today. I hope the science odds are in your favor 😉
Is it the same sample that consistently isn’t working? Perhaps you need to use a spectrophotometer to check your DNA sample for concentration level.
Being that I have not taken Biology since high school, I had to google gel electrophoresis. Now know what it does, this seems really cool. How does the picture correlate to what you are doing? Also, what is the overall project that you are working on?
I just did a quick google search on gel electrophoresis. “Gel electrophoresis is a technique used to separate DNA fragments according to their size.” So, my next question would be:
How would this relate to your classroom teaching? Plus, what are you specifically separating?
Sounds like your having fun. Hope your experiment goes well. Great picture. Are y’all using dyes?
Cheers
Robert
This looks so fun! How does this experiment tie into the whole project? Also, are you able to use this in your classroom? What sources of error did you come up with?