Amazing Breakthrough from Home Lab

[SC]

Finally, a home lab in the news in a positive light.

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/teen-scientist-amazing-breakthrough-her-home-lab-165831291.html

 

[Bryan Bishop]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:42 PM, SC <stac...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Finally, a home lab in the news in a positive light.

"In her research she developed a process of artificial selection where
she killed off algae with low levels of acetyl-CoA carboxylase
(ACCase), an enzyme crucial to lipid synthesis. Left behind in the
beakers under her bed were an efficient bunch of high yield algae,
which she discovered produced a significant increase in lipid
production."

I wonder what the selection technique was. Maybe just separating
populations, taking a measurement, and then deciding which to dump.

- Bryan
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[Jeswin]

Would be nice to hear more. Some more details:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/competitions/science-talent-search/winners.html
http://www.societyforscience.org/sts/2013finalists/svolz

BINGO

Optimizing Algae Biofuels: Artificial Selection to Improve Lipid Synthesis

http://www.csef.colostate.edu/2012_Abstracts/Volz_Sara.pdf

energy.colostate.edu/docs/7_Volz.ppt

Hmm, she's doing some quiet advanced stuff. qPCR, immunoblotting,
Trizol RNA extraction. So looks like she partnered the Colorado State
U. I didn't read it all yet.

BTW, Google, you broke gMail. *pulls out Thunderbird*