I was reading through all the bioephemera archives that I missed through being hideously busy and was motivated to find something pretty a...

The structure of DNA is a double helix of two sugar-phosphate backbones joined by hydrogen-bonds between nitrogenous bases, as shown below:...

I took a quick break away from synthetic biology and DNA synthesis research the other day, to dive back into my happy little world of antibi...

Sequencing = the process of finding out what base-pairs a piece of DNA consists of ( AAAGGGAAA etc) Synthesis = the process of actually mak...

A friend of mine , who actually reads my blog occasionally, was very interested in the idea of DNA sequencing, fascinated by the thought tha...

At the moment, as I mentioned in my last post. I'm trying to design a gene to get synthesised. I'm using GeneDesigner from 2.0, and ...

A very small miracle happened last night. In order to get on of our pigments, we need to synthesise a piece of DNA. A very large piece of DN...

The ninth edition of Scientia Pro Publica is up on Pleiotropy . I'm quite proud because not only does it feature my colourful logic ga...

Around a week ago, a couple of men came into the lab and installed a new plate reader. This is a nifty little device that can measure the bo...

This is quite possibly the smallest gel I have ever run: To put this in perspective, usual gel-running machines are big clunky plastic thin...