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Sterivex Water Filter DNA Extraction? No Problem!

We’ve been working hard this last month in preparation for the 2011 ASM meeting that just passed. It was a great event and we very much enjoyed meeting everyone at our booth. We love talking to you and hearing feedback and comments about the products.
At ASM this year we introduced a new product to the [...]

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MO BIO Seminars at Penn State University, State College, PA

MO BIO Labs will be visiting Penn State University in State College, PA this week. We have two seminars planned on April 19th and 20th. Hope to meet you there!
 

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Wrapping up 2010 at MO BIO Labs

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to check in and let you all know that our blog is going to get back to its regularly scheduled updates starting in the new year.  We have some new interviews to share with you, more technical tips, and plenty of primary research articles we can discuss.  The last few months have been spent [...]

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Southern California ASM Membership Drive and Social Event

 When I was a graduate student at the Medical College of Virginia, many of the microbiologists in my department were very active in the local ASM.  Our local ASM provided opportunities to graduate students and postdocs to present their work to an outside audience of scientists from the surrounding universities and a chance to set up collaborations with [...]

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Measuring the Impact on Microbial Diversity after an Oil Spill

As the U.S. struggles with the after effects of the oil spill on tourism, animal health, and food safety due to the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history, microbiologists are stuggling to determine the scope of damage to microbial diversity in the ocean water and sediment.
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20th, 2010 that resulted in the [...]

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It’s Raining Bacteria….from the Showerhead!

How many of us dare to look up and actually take notice of the cleanliness of the showerhead during our morning shower? How often do you ever take a little Clorox to the showerhead?
Well according to a study published in PNAS this month (PNAS, Sep 2009; 106: 16393 – 16399) by Leah M. Feazel, Laura [...]

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The Culture Dish: a new tradition!

Welcome to the MO BIO Laboratories inaugural weekly blog, The Culture Dish, introducing what will be the first of many interesting and captivating articles, technical tips, news stories, and interviews with cutting edge scientists. 
The aim of this blog is to give you a better idea of who we are at MO BIO, generate discussion on topics important to you and [...]

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