Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Trip to India - How India is fast becoming a cashless society & info for NRIs on how to participate in this

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 I have been extremely impressed by how fast India has become a cashless society. Of course, most of us in the west carry very little cash a...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Trip to India - My Opinions on Metro (Awesome) Ride Hailing Services like Ola and Uber (They Suck!)

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We have been in India for about 2 weeks now, about a week of it in Chennai. Getting around in Chennai to visit friends and family or attendi...
Sunday, February 6, 2022

My Fascination with Science - PCR Tests - 5. Cycle 2 - All three steps

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  So, this is the result from the end of the first step. We then begin the cycle of denaturing, extension and annealing. When denatured, the...
Sunday, January 2, 2022

My Fascination with Science - PCR Tests - 5. Cycle 1 - Step 3 - Extension Step 1

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Extension - This is where the exciting thing happens where copies of the snippet are made. I suggest you be patient and go through each of t...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

My Fascination with Science - PCR Tests - 4. Cycle 1 - Step 2 - Annealing

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Annealing - This is a step where you are going to attach two "stops", one each, to the individual strands with the idea that these...

My Fascination with Science - PCR Tests - 3. Cycle 1 - Step 1 - Denaturation

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Denaturation - Bascially, separate the two stands of DNA. Through various trials, scientists have found that around 94 -96°C the two strands...

My Fascination with Science - PCR Tests - 2. Some Basics

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PCR Stands for  Polymerase Chain Reaction . Think of it as a clever copy machine that can create amplified copies of a certain portion of a ...