Archive for July 12th, 2006

Mycoplasma

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Wotcha folks, long time no see.

I’m going to cheat here, and link to a piece I’ve just written elsewhere, because it fits well under Tools of the Trade.

The word alone chills the hearts of experienced cell biologists. And when, a couple of months back, someone upstairs was getting strange results from their cell-based assays, the Boss came to me and asked,
‘What do you know about mycoplasma?’. The icy black hand of dread gripped me and I spent the rest of the day trying to find a supplier for a mycoplasma detection kit in Australia.

Please forgive me for this blatant self-plagiarism.