February - 2016

Monday, February 29, 2016

Today we were a bit scattered. We had to remind ourselves of what had happened in the past few weeks. After some confusion, we began...

Today we began work on designing our DNA strand. In addition, we set up a plan to contact companies, to ask for their help in creating...

Today we finalized our timeline and contacted the company Qiagen about a kit they have for "methylation specific PCR (MSP)." Our plan is...

Today we discussed the four types of PCR that we had researched throughout the week. We have narrowed down our options to Helicase...

We worked today to outline goals and create a timeline for ourselves. By the end of the week, we will all have researched a different...

We continued our research into different types of PCR; helicase dependent PCR and PCR that uses a salt. We also got into contact with New...

We researched further into restriction enzymes, looking for a known cut site and its restriction enzyme, so that in our project we can...

We started researching methylation and restriction enymes. Prokaryotic cells protect their DNA by methylating it. Our next step will be...