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  • No-Bake Mango Cheesecake

    No-Bake Mango Cheesecake

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    So this is an extrapolated recipe from Shadowdancer Duskstar, who put it in the comments of a recent post. The Ginja Ninja loves mango, and as we took a trip to Jungle Jim’s and I was able to score a few nice ripe ones (although they were Brazilian, I’m not sure what the difference would…

  • Experimentum Periculosum

    Experimentum Periculosum

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    Continuing with Hippocrates’ pithy philosophical statement, we find that experiment is dangerous. As I am working in a chemistry lab, I have to say that indeed, it is. Even tried and true methods will occasionally fail, and many use dangerous chemicals in the course of carrying out an assay. But yet, we continue. Safety is…

  • Gel Electrophoresis

    Gel Electrophoresis

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    Purpose: DNA is negatively charged, so when fragments of it are subjected to an electrical current, they will migrate away from the negative pole and toward the positive. This principle allows the sorting of DNA fragments by size in an agarose gel, as smaller fragments will move faster than larger ones. By using a molecular…