[Leica] Summer Project Over

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

The first one is slightly gross here before breakfast, but well 
photographed. And I love the second one!

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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YNWA













> On 11 Aug 2018, at 04:10, Aram via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, my students are done with their project other than their 
> presentation next week.  Time to get out and shoot some photos.  I took a 
> few for them when they were working.
> 
> They were trying to get DNA out of these:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/sp/USDA+Exuvate-8067-Edit-.jpg.html
> 
> that is a millimeter ruler next to that codling moth larval skin.  I put 
> the 100 APO on a bellows and it worked very well.  Much better than the 
> enlarging lens I had been using on the bellows.  A bit big and awkward, 
> but the results were amazing.
> 
> Here they are working away in the USDA Lab.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/sp/USDA+Jim+Teresa-8000.jpg.html
> 
> They were extracting DNA, amplifying a particular odorant gene, cloning 
> it, pulling it out and then having it sequenced for the researcher who 
> runs the lab.  Here he is working at the UV light table cutting bands out 
> of a gel.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/sp/USDA+Cutting+Bands-2875.jpg.html
> 
> Fun project and they did a good job.  What they found out will enable the 
> researcher to extract DNA from the thousands of insect larvae he will have 
> over the next 6 months.
> 
> Comments welcome.  I will return to more traditional photography now.
> 
> 
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> 
> ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
> would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson
> 
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