Morning-glory

I had students doing the basic cheek-cell-under-the-microscope exercise this morning, and one student had a nucleus that was TWO nuclei - two separate stained chambers, one about 2/3 normal nucleus size, the other about 1/3. It was a surface epithelial cell, which ...

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... all I know is that it's found in eggs, from farms.. from chickens- that eat... Yeah. Uh, #2- Sad time? I always get sad at four O'clock in the morning- I mean, uh- 4 O'clock in the afternoon. And I'm like "Dang, why am I always get sad at 4 in the afternoon?" and so, is there like ...

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I ran across a paper with the genetic version of knockdown mice this morning. "Knockdown of Cdc42 in the developing retina was achieved by crossing Cdc42 floxed mice [29] with mice expressing cre recombinase under the control of the α element of the Pax6 ...

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... we suspect he just started keeping his crazier thoughts to himself). This summer he started having seizures as he was falling asleep and in the morning after having multiple seizures in the night and almost collapsing he seemed confused and out of sorts; on the way to hospital he seemed to think ...

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... next week and an one of the steps is to resuspend the bacterial pellet to an OD600 0.5. So say I had a 1.5mL overnight culture and the following morning the OD600 was 1.7. Once I spin down, wash etc etc I read to get to a certain OD (0.5 in my case)...this is the calculation Divide the OD you ...

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