Podcast: Explain Podcast
Erschienen: 04.08.2023
Dauer: 00:22:47
Iuliia and Daniel have fun with salt water and alcohol Chapters: 00:00:00 DIY DNA isolation 00:15:38 Directed evolution of Enzymes DNA isolation in your kitchen - Experiment during the episode: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Extract-Your-Own-DNA-Using-Household-Kitche/ - Another protocol with the same approach: https://learning-center.homesciencetools.com/article/how-to-extract-dna-at-home/ - Extract DNA from a strawberry: https://www.popsci.com/diy/diy-science-project-strawberrry-dna/ - Banana DNA extraction: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/activities/banana-dna BONUS: Directed, artifical evolution of enzymes: - Where it comes from: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2018/arnold/facts/ - Chemistryworld about the idea: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/what-is-directed-evolution-and-why-did-it-win-the-chemistry-nobel-prize/3009584.article - A few of many results of this method: https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/228 - MIT News about adding robots to this: https://news.mit.edu/2021/robotic-directed-evolution-molecules-1230 Since 2018, West German Genome Center (https://wggc.de/) operates as the next generation sequencing facility and supports research in genomics & transcriptomics by providing expertise and sequencing services. WGGC is a part of the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN: https://ngs-kn.de/) - network of NGS core facilities in Germany. Listen to our podcast and send your feedback to ( podcast[dot]explain[at]gmail[dot]com ). The Explain Podcast is recorded at the Medienlabor at Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (https://medienlab.phil.hhu.de/). Our podcast is an outreach activity within the national genomics facility "West German Genome Center" funded by the DFG (https://www.dfg.de/) (No. 407493903).
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Podcast-Website: Episode "Special Episode 1: Kitchen Genomics - DIY DNA Isolation"
