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		<title>Q</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, a local sales rep for a certain Qompany that sells mainly kits, but also robots, came by my office recently with a promotional flyer. An invitation, if you will, to a V.I.P. event - a showcase of their new robotic, liquid-handling, sample-preparing, all-singing, all-dancing box. A box with a lovely name, evocative of orchestras.
Now, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/04/26/371/</link>
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		<title>Brand New Confusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post-90’s biotech era which we all inhabit, I&#8217;m finding that brand recognition is becoming a confusing game indeed. Old favourite boutique vendors like Molecular Probes have been swallowed up by enormous, multi-tentacled distributors like Invitrogen, and keeping track of who’s distributing your favourite brand of pipettor, or water filter, or tissue culture media, can make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/04/12/370/</link>
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		<title>Bioscience Technologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest email from them says this is my third and final notice.  If I do not respond to this email they will terminate my subscription.  Thank goodness.  
This is one of those mailing lists I got on from a vendor show and don&#8217;t know how to get off of.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/04/02/369/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s see if I can break the blog.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, as Kat mentioned over at the SAB, I am now activated, Word-Press-enabled, and ready to jump into this whole Life Science Tools of the Trade thing, joining my virtual colleagues hbogerd and hwiegand.
As some of you know, I&#8217;m a Blogger kind of person so far, so this post is as much about introducing myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/03/24/356/</link>
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		<title>Another Product You Don&#8217;t Need&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a vendor fair I picked up a free sample of Agarose Tablets from BIOLINE! The little white pills of agarose eliminate the  messy task of weighing out agarose! Okay, unlike LB powder or SDS, weighing out agarose isn&#8217;t really that messy. The little pills do save you the time you&#8217;d spend weighing out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/03/23/355/</link>
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		<title>Get your 2007-2008 NEB catalog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A co-worker asked if I&#8217;d help her with some cloning.  She had the strategy all figured out.  The oligos were here and the pcr was done for the insert.  All I had to do was digest the insert fragment and the vector backbone, purify them and ligate them together.  Seemed like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/03/20/353/</link>
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		<title>Most expensive article?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The full text article is available for purchase
$59.66 plus tax 
for a  1991 Virology  article?  
No thanks. I wonder what is the highest price a journal charges for access to an article? Does anyone actually buy single articles? More importantly, why am I trying to get access to that crappy (probably)  old (definitely) article on Sunday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/03/16/352/</link>
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		<title>What the definition of &#8220;is&#8221; is&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton&#8217;s memorable attempt at legalese evasion (what the definition of &#8220;is&#8221; is) during the Monica Blewinksy hearings made me wonder what the dfinition of &#8220;it&#8221; is. Today I wore my Promega promo t-shirt. The slogan? &#8220;Research makes me do it&#8221;. It? It depends on what your definition of &#8220;It&#8221; is. What does research make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/03/09/351/</link>
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		<title>Free T-shirt Promotion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It just arrived!  DHL just delivered the free t-shirt that I signed up for a couple of weeks ago.  It came shrink wrapped in the shape of a t-shirt.  Do you know what I mean?  Those shirts you can buy that are packaged to look like different shapes.  I&#8217;ve seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/03/04/349/</link>
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		<title>Science Lab musical?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has the High School musical craze reached the science world?  If you haven&#8217;t seen Bio-Rads PCR song, you need to check it out!
Scientists for better PCR
I&#8217;m still undecided.  Is this suppose to be taken seriously?  
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		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/02/16/348/</link>
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		<title>In-Fusion PCR Cloning System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a flyer for Clontech&#8217;s In-Fusion PCR Cloning System in the mail. I do try and scan the junk mail I receive, looking for the jewel in the junk. In-Fusion is a method of cloning that uses regions of engineered homology on your PCR generated insert and vector of choice to ligate without cutting your PCR [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/02/08/347/</link>
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		<title>Does the manuscript self-destruct?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Purchase Short-Term Access



 
Pay per Article - You may access this article (from the computer you are currently using) for 1 day for US$15.00.


The Magic Eight Ball says &#8220;Doubtful&#8221;.
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		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/01/27/345/</link>
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		<title>Operon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I complained about the ridiculous and useless plastic boxes Operon started sending out if you ordered a single oligo in this blog a month ago. I received two shipments of oligos on Friday (1/11/08) in the paper sleeves of old. Did Operon listen or did they just run out of the Operozone destroying boxes?  I&#8217;d like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2008/01/12/344/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Day on a Tuesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[sure makes it hard to get much stuff accomplished on the Monday.  Set a few things up.  In general, though, I didn&#8217;t want to set things up that I&#8217;d have to worry about tomorrow.  Thanks to my cells looking weird this morning I&#8217;ll be in briefly to do a transfection.   Other than that it&#8217;ll be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/12/31/343/</link>
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		<title>Science Junk Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many months I&#8217;ve been getting science equipment fliers/magazines sent to my home address.  Somehow my name got sold and I&#8217;ve been getting all kinds of crap - AT HOME!!  The worst part is trying to gett them to stop sending stuff.
One *subscription* was finally expiring.  At least that&#8217;s what the telemarketer kept saying when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/12/22/342/</link>
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		<title>Just one word.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you listening?
Plastics.
I guess someone at Operon saw &#8220;The Graduate&#8221; and took that advice to heart. I used to receive oligos from Operon in a paper corrugated sleeve. It could hold up to eight oligos. You could reuse it, recycle it or just throw it out and not feel too guilty.
Today I received an (meaning literally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/12/18/341/</link>
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		<title>http://www.DiscoveR8.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how but I got on the spam list of DiscoveR8. I ignored them for months and finally decided to check out the site. I&#8217;ve worked on Apobec3G (a cellular protein with anti-viral activity) for the last four years. An &#8220;Apobec3G&#8221;  search at PubMed shows 294 hits. A search at  DiscoveR8 for &#8220;Apobec3G&#8221; results [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/12/13/340/</link>
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		<title>Figures for a manuscript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mac vs PC? Photoshop or Powerpoint? I don&#8217;t think it really matters.  What does cause  problems is scanning films on a PC, starting figures at work on the Mac, taking them home to your PC and the following day taking them back into the lab to finish them up on a Mac.  PC to Mac to PC to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/12/13/339/</link>
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		<title>Moose Munch!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks again to one of our favorite sales reps.  She came by the lab bringing gifts - a container of Harry and David&#8217;s Moose Munch.  For those that don&#8217;t know what Moose Munch is it&#8217;s caramel popcorn with nuts and chocolate.  In this case, three different types.  Milk chocolate and nuts, dark chocolate with nuts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/12/10/338/</link>
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		<title>Naming names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted before about the annoying habit of vendors comparing their product with a competitor&#8217;s but refusing to name names. Why? Threat of a lawsuit? Maybe their product claims are fraudulent, certainly not peer-reviewed? I&#8217;ve always wondered how everyone&#8217;s transfection agent can be 100% better than companies x, y and z. Does that mean I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/12/06/337/</link>
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		<title>LAB MIX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like Roche and I love our Roche sales rep but the LAB MIX promo has to be one of the worst ever.  I just spent an hour trying to get my free songs. The LAB MIX site? Think really really shitty iTUNES. I finally found something I wanted out of their very limited library and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/12/03/336/</link>
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		<title>Transforming DNA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually send out plasmid requests as spots on Whatman paper. I draw a circle, pipet several microliters of concentrated DNA into the circle, wrap the DNA in clingwrap and send it off. Lately, I&#8217;ve received several &#8220;YOU didn&#8217;t put any DNA on the paper&#8221;. Of course, I didn&#8217;t&#8230;.or perhaps you can&#8217;t transform bacteria.
So&#8230;&#8230;
Cut out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/11/27/335/</link>
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		<title>Requesting Reagents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some simple rules to follow when requesting published reagents:
Cite the manuscript in which the reagent was published. The person who did the work may be long gone.
If you don&#8217;t want to supply a FedEx number be patient. It often takes weeks for international mail. Don&#8217;t complain that it didn&#8217;t arrive in one week and expect it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/11/23/334/</link>
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		<title>iTrademark this, iTrademark that (update)..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not making this up. I was looking at the new iBioRad catalog and noticed that iBioRad has registered trademarks on iCycler, iCyclerIQ, iQ (how can you trademark iQ?) iQ5, iProof, iScript, iScript Select, iTaq and MyiQ.
Hole iShit (not trademarked-feel free to use it)! What&#8217;s next? iToilet Paper?
I wish SAB would do a survey asking if I would be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/11/06/333/</link>
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		<title>iThink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came back from a vendor show. If I was in marketing (with a MBA!) for an iBiotech company I would name everything iSomething. iTaq, iCrack, iWater, iCycler, iT would be great! You can fool some of the people some of the time but i can ifool all of the ipeople all of the itime!
Blah. iBuyohRad beat me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2007/11/05/332/</link>
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