Week 6. Semester 3. New Positive Controls are in!

Unfortunately, we were not able to conduct any experiments this week. But the team met to discuss our next steps in the project and organize our samples that have tested positive in the past. With the old controls we couldn't move forward because there was clear evidence of degradation of our positive control DNA. Dr. Schwacke has shipped the PC team new positive controls! So we can now resume our testing. Later this week we will be meeting again to run a gel with the new positive control DNA to test it and hopefully find nice banding. With satisfactory results we will then re-test our previously positive samples and cut out the band in the gel to send for sequencing to then confirm whether we have Legionella.

Legionella bacteria

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