4/14 Lab

On 4/14, we were prepping plasmid. Trevon and Laura were prepping the PRad and Shiva and I prepped the PRadZ1. At first, the centrifuge was being questionable, so after rescuing our samples from that centrifuge, we switched them to a more reliable one. In the end, our sample was pretty dirty, at 8.7 and 8.8 concentration, and 2.17 and 2.69 260/280 ratio.

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  1. Ricardo M.May 3, 2018 at 9:55 PM

    Nice post. I wonder what PRAD and PRADZ1 are. That's crazy that you guys got a bad centrifuge. Luckily you guys were able to get one that works to continue preparing your samples for your project.

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