Gel electrophoresis

Doctors and scientist use blood every day for research. For examples, they use blood in studies to help make medication or to even find cures. Doctors also use their patients’ blood to preform test to see if they have some sort of an affection or life-threating virus that is causing their patients to be sick. Reasons why doctors use blood for their test or research is because the human blood or any organisms blood is very complex because it has all sorts of pathogens, leukocytes (white blood…

College students focus on the content presented to the in their courses like understanding the difference between mitosis and meiosis or what exactly Plato meant in his writings. Rarely do students take the time to step back from their studies and analyze the organization of their classes and how that may affect their performance in the course. It is extremely interesting to get a chance to look back on the courses I have taken and analyze their culture rather than content. I will be looking…

PCR History The invaluable molecular technique known as PCR, or the polymerase chain reaction, was discovered by a biochemist named Kary Mullis. Mullis was doing research in the early 1980s at a biotechnology company in California when he initially thought of the idea regarding PCR. PCR was developed by a combination of several techniques already in existence; the synthesis of oligonucleotides and their utilization to synthesize new copies of DNA that were specific using DNA polymerases. Mullis…

Arabidopsis cell wall mutants INTRODUCTION & AIMS Plant cell walls are highly dynamic structure which is made up of polysaccharide such as cellulose. In plant cell, cellulose is synthesised at the plasma membrane by the enzyme cellulose synthase (CesA) which forms rosette structure with 18 CesA proteins in total. Mutating any of these CesA proteins is thought to interfere with the normal production of cellulose in plant. As cellulose is an important component of cell wall and is essential for…

Separation through Ion Exchange Chromatography Introduction Amino acids are important molecules that serve as building blocks for all proteins that are made in every organism. Although there are millions of different proteins that can be made by all living things combined, all proteins are derived from a base of 20 amino acids that are combined together in different ways to create the diversity of life that is on Earth. Humans cannot produce all of the amino acids needed for protein synthesis,…