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Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
Reed:
We have a few plant hormones, but unfortunately not that one. Although, I did find some lidocaine in our chemical stores (why the fuck do we need lidocaine!?!)
When I was an undergrad I worked in a plant biotechnology lab, and I once grabbed the concentrated stock of one of the hormones we used instead of the working solution when I was making media. The shoots I planted in those jars would up growing massive bunches of roots, instead of a couple of thin ones!
Update: Spelled my name out with ethanol on my bench and lit it on fire. It was awesome!
Vendetagainst:
Yeah, that is strange. The only thing I know of that lidocaine is good for is anesthesia, maybe it's first aid or a precursor chemical?
I don't really know what a microbiology lab is stocked with, I am curious.
--- Quote ---Spelled my name out with ethanol on my bench and lit it on fire. It was awesome!
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That is awesome. You should have dissolved a different salt into each letter to produce a badass burning rainbow effect.
Reed:
Most of our stocks are media supplies (agar, yeast extract, tryptone) and additives (various salts for minimal media, antibiotics, carbon sources). We have stuff for molecular biology (buffers like Tris and HEPES, a few solvents, acids and bases, restriction PCR and other enzymes). Biochemistry supplies (Buffers again, chromatography media, compounds like imidizole for chromatography, metabolites like gluconate-6-phosphate for protein assays). Supplies for running DNA, RNA and protein gels (agarose, polyacrylamide, TEMED, ethidium bromide). Tons of dyes used for various assays (congo red for cellulose, neutral red for PHBs).
We usually have a ton of random stuff from when a professor retires and just leaves their chemical supplies out for all to take, but that still doesn't explain the lidocaine.
Caleb:
Dear Blog Thread,
I wish that it didn't bother me so much when people call our microfilm reader a microfiche machine.
...but it really does.
Vendetagainst:
--- Quote from: Dire bacterium on 11 Jun 2009, 10:12 ---We have stuff for molecular biology (buffers like Tris and HEPES, a few solvents, acids and bases, restriction PCR and other enzymes).
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any strong acids? You can do some pretty rad things with nitric acid and basically anything with a hydroxyl group...
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