Monday, May 11, 2009

Genetics at Home

The Boston Globe writes Cambridge woman navigates the genome in the comforts of her own home.

"In her humble first-floor apartment, Katherine Aull is searching for a killer that has stalked her family for generations...The 23-year-old MIT graduate uses tools that fit neatly next to her shoe rack. There is a vintage thermal cycler she uses to alternately heat and cool snippets of DNA, a high-voltage power supply scored on eBay, and chemicals stored in the freezer in a box that had once held vegan 'bacon' strips."

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