OTRE: SC - Newcomer

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Elizabeth sez:
>Heat shocking bacteria.  For those that don't know
>that is when you plunge your poor inocent bactreia
>into a water bath at about 72C (hot water basically)
>which knocks holes in them.  Then you force feed them
>DNA.  Or just infecting them with a virus which will
>eventually kill them.  Like I said not very nice but
>you don't get those cool colours.


unless you include a little GFP or that cool blue gene I heard about
yesterday....:)

- --Anne-Marie, who thinks GFP is WAY cool (Green Fluorescent Protein)...glow
in the dark!!! and you can theoretically stick it into ANY cell, including
living ones in a larger organism...bwah hah hah :) you'd always be able to
find your way to the biffie at night.....(I am SUCH a geek! :))