{"id":1552,"date":"2013-12-04T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2013-12-04T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:25:06","slug":"wednesday-4-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/04\/wednesday-4-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 4 December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:25 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> When a person I respect suggests something, I pay attention. When two people I respect independently suggest the same thing, I really pay attention. So, 18 months ago at my father-in-law&#8217;s 90th birthday party, I was chatting with Mary Chervenak about future science kits. Mary suggested we do a biotechnology kit&#8211;protein and DNA extraction, digestion, and electrophoresis; DNA transformation into E. coli; bacteriophage propagation; DNA transfection into eukaryotic cells; and so on. Lately, I&#8217;ve been talking to Todd Rider, who&#8217;s senior scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and on the advisory board for the S.P.A.R.K. competition that we&#8217;re entering this month. Todd suggested the same thing Mary had. So I think we&#8217;re going to do a biotechnology kit, in addition to or instead of an AP Biology kit. We&#8217;ll face some real challenges putting such a kit or kits together, but all of those involve keeping the kit(s) affordable. I&#8217;d like to be able to start shipping these kits next year, but it will probably be 2015.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:25 &#8211; When a person I respect suggests something, I pay attention. When two people I respect independently suggest the same thing, I really pay attention. So, 18 months ago at my father-in-law&#8217;s 90th birthday party, I was chatting with Mary Chervenak about future science kits. Mary suggested we do a biotechnology kit&#8211;protein and DNA extraction, digestion, and electrophoresis; DNA transformation into E. coli; bacteriophage propagation; DNA transfection into eukaryotic cells; and so on. Lately,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/04\/wednesday-4-december-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Wednesday, 4 December 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}