electrophoresis

[Kathryn]

Hi
Has anyone used anything more interesting for electrophoresis than food colours? We only have the home made equipment and follow the Heinmann forensic science prac. Is there a way of easily doing DNA or proteins with this simple set-up?
Kathryn

[J]

There's a virtual experiment easily accessed at:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/gel/
Interactive and no mess!!
We are planning to run it on the interactive whiteboard in the lab.

Hope this is helpful

J

[Rowyrow]

OOOOOOOOOWWW J that is so cool. I remember doing a real electrophoresis at uni and this has all the steps a fantastic cheap alternative to actually doin it!!!

[Loopy]

I am so grateful for that site. In the years I have been here I think only once has the experiment worked. At least the students can see what they are supposed to end up with!
Good One!
Lou.

[lizzieb]

Julie, what a brilliant site! Many thanks for this link.

[ELIZABETH]

Hi All,
This is the electrophoresis prac we do - works well and is quite fun.

LIZ

http://www.brightminds.uq.edu.au/resour ... to_do.html

[JelJane]

We have just recently done the food dyes as well. You might like this site for some extra resources though - nice slideshow and worksheet.

http://www.outreach.canterbury.ac.nz/re ... esis.shtml

[Robb]

Hi All,

Kathryn, Well.... I have to conceed that Biology is not my favoured subject .......but we won't go there........ but yes I have performed the electrophoresis and what works well are amino acids and the good thing about these is that we can colour them using Ninhydrin.... brilliant......

Cheers,

Robb.....

[Kathryn]

Hi Robb,
Have you performed amino acids on a basic home-made electrophoresis unit? If so, what aa's did you actually use?

kathryn