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Can horse meat be reliably detected by a cheap, at-home PCR test?
Can horse meat be reliably detected by a cheap, at-home PCR test?
What organisms live in a home environment? Can culturing, PCR and 16S sequencing be used to identify those organisms?
Verification of commercial personal-genomics results: Can DNA extraction, PCR and sequencing confirm a SNP result reported by 23andme?
Commercial kit performance: What are the performance properties of various commercial molecular-biology kits?

Revision as of 04:53, 7 March 2013

Research questions which can conceivable by answered by in silico or small-scale, low-cost wetlab experiments:

Non-standard growth media: Can E. coli grow on "dextro" energy tablets?


pllD: Can activity of the pllD promoter be shown by expression of GFP in a minimal medium?


Can horse meat be reliably detected by a cheap, at-home PCR test?


What organisms live in a home environment? Can culturing, PCR and 16S sequencing be used to identify those organisms?


Verification of commercial personal-genomics results: Can DNA extraction, PCR and sequencing confirm a SNP result reported by 23andme?


Commercial kit performance: What are the performance properties of various commercial molecular-biology kits?