Listen "SE1: Kitchen Genomics - DIY DNA Isolation"
Episode Synopsis
Iuliia and Daniel have fun with salt water and alcoholChapters:00:00:00 DIY DNA isolation 00:15:38 Directed evolution of EnzymesDNA 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-dnaBONUS: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-1230Since 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).License NoticeThis podcast including all episodes, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.You are free to share, remix, and use this content as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.Attribution:Podcast Title: Explain PodcastCreators: Iuliia Novoselova, Daniel RickertWebsite: https://ngs-cn.de/explain-podcast/
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