In a follow-up to my all time favorite post, Protein Purification on a Budget: Technical Tuesday, today we are covering a design for a fraction collector for <$100. In their recent preprint, Low-cost, scalable, and automated fluid sampling for fluidics applications , A. S. Boosehaghi, Y.A. Kil, K. H. Min, J. Gehring and L. Pachter […]
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Automated Western Blotting
Western Blots are a ubiquitous technique in biological and biochemical laboratories used to detect a specific protein in a sample using antibody binding. Running a western blot is one of the more mundane and time consuming tasks of a lab researcher. A new paper “Open source automated western blot processor” from Jorge Bravo-Martinez describes a […]
Soda bottles as disposable culture vessels
This week Professor Christine Morrison at the Colorado School of Mines shared a picture on twitter in which she was using 2-liter plastic pop bottles to culture bacteria in a shaker instead of using glass 2L Erlenmeyer flasks which cost ~$100 each. For those who are skeptical, there are a lot of papers about growing […]
Technical Tuesday: Protein Purification on a Budget
Welcome to the first Technical Tuesday! Where we try to dive a little deeper into the actual costs involved in particular scientific techniques. We hope to show where you can save money, and what you might lose by saving that money. Today’s topic is protein purification by columns thanks to Dr. Marc Ridilla who provided […]