Team:Toulouse/test

iGEM Toulouse 2015

Experiments & Protocols


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Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5
Example 6 Example 7 Example 8 Example 9 Example 10

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  • A ripe banana (Brownish)
  • 50 ml of water (About a half cup)
  • 2 teaspoon of salt
  • 2 teaspoon Dishwashing soap or detergent
  • Rubbing alcohol (cold)
  • Coffee filter
  • A test tube (or narrow glass)
  • Narrow wooden stirrer
  • Peel and smash half of the Banana into a pulp
  • Add the 50ml of water(must be at ambient temperature), the salt and the Dishwashing soap
  • Stir until a soft foam starts to appear
  • Let the mix pour through the coffee filter (about five minutes)
  • Throw out the coffee filter and its content, keep the liquid
  • Take a 2ml sample and pour it in the test tube
  • Add 4ml of alcohol, two layer should form in the test tube
  • In the alcohol layer, a white cloud with bubbles should appear, this cloud is DNA!


Simply beautiful.
So real, it's unreal. Or is it?

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