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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

How to extract your own DNA

Courtesy of Radio Wales this morning - swill your mouth out rigorously with salty water. Spit the solution into a glass containing washing up liquid diluted with water. Add cold, strong gin. After a few minutes the washing up liquid will start to separate and thin white spirals of DNA will become evident. Awesome.

# posted by Peter Black : 8:39 AM
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It seems that it does clump together enough to be seen. Check out this:

http://www.nature.ca/genome/05/051/pdfs/DNAextract_e.pdf

(a PDF, of course)

and this

http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/activities/extraction/
# posted by Blogger David : 6:23 PM
 
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