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Bento Lab ๐Ÿงฌ

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We make Bento Lab = a portable PCR workstation for scientists to work in remote places. Tweets about frugal methods, field sequencing and DNA barcoding

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Hereโ€™s a cheap and effective ~20 min single-tube DNA extraction method for bacteria and fungal spores, in which cells are cracked open by boiling in 0.1 M KOH, drained and resuspended in water, and then used directly for PCR to produce amplicons of up to 6,500 bp! ๐Ÿ‘‡ It could be