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turbo

(Science: zoology) Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.

Origin: L. Turbo, -inis, a top. See Turbine.


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I get short smears trying to amplify tomato DNA, pleaseHelp

... had new primers made, I have tried hot start reactions. I have tried adjusting the ammount of MgCl2, KCl, Taq, and dNTPs. I have used a gene clean turbo kit to attempt to remove any polyphenols etc that could be inhibiting PCR. I keep getting these short smears when I run gels. I have used control ...

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by tomato
Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:27 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: I get short smears trying to amplify tomato DNA, pleaseHelp
Replies: 5
Views: 168

96 well miniprep?

I am currently trailling some 96 well miniprep kits, mainly Millipore's one and Qiagen's Turbo kit. We have done our first trial of the millipore kit and have had abysmal yields, it is a low copy number plasmid, but I was just wondering if there is anyone else out there ...

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by nikinje
Mon May 18, 2009 2:00 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: 96 well miniprep?
Replies: 0
Views: 221

Use of diuretics

... it out" whilst someone is in such a state.. If Bob is highly intoxicated with alcohol after a good night out (that happened to go a little turbo..), could he consume a diuretic substance in addition to a good quantity of water to catalyse the flushing process? (Kind of a #2 but related ...

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by drunkard
Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:41 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Use of diuretics
Replies: 3
Views: 985

Anti-TurboGFP

Hi I have seen some Anti-Turbo GFP in a uk distributors site. I’m a bit confused. Is this vector has an anti body + turboGFP or is a vector responsible for destroying Turbo GFP. It’s much cheaper than normal GFP. And its volume is about ...

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by mehdi71000
Sun May 20, 2007 7:32 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Anti-TurboGFP
Replies: 14
Views: 1526

Have you guy heard of the Bio Sphere?

My girlfriend is a turbo chrisitian and believes everything in the bible... I on the other hand believe some of it, only if there's proof. Any way she says that the people who lived to be like 987 years old were that age because there ...

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by i_r_e_d
Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:49 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Have you guy heard of the Bio Sphere?
Replies: 37
Views: 4247


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