Thinking Outside the Icebox on DNA Storage

From: The Scientist | Date: July 18, 2005| Author: Dutton, Gail | Copyright information

No stranger to forensic labs, dry DNA storage gets an automation makeover | By Gail Dutton

Lab freezers are like mom's attic: cluttered with the property of people long gone. At home, that might include baseball cards and old shoes; in the lab, it's samples that graduate students and postdocs left behind. Mom can clean out her attic easily enough, but what about in the lab?

"I probably have stuff that goes back 20 years," in the freezers, says Jeffrey Bada, director of NASA Spec...

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