Just because I know everyone is so curious as to what I have been doing with the bacteria these past 10 weeks, here is the abstract to the paper I have written on my lab experiment:
An important, but poorly understood aspect of COPD is the high prevalence of bacterial colonization of patients’ lower airways. The aim of the present study was to apply optimized real-time quantitative PCR assays for detection of the most common bacteria found in COPD patients. An optimized protocol designed to target H. influenzae, N. meningitides, S. pneumoniae, M. catharralis, M. pneumonia, and C. pneumonia was applied to 60 samples obtained from COPD patients, and the results were compared with those obtained from regular culture. This study showed that manual DNA extraction was more reliable and efficient than robotic DNA extraction, and that RQ-PCR was more sensitive than culture in detection of bacteria in COPD patient sputum.
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Humans always do things better than robots. Thus, there should be more human employees in the world than robots, in order to raise the rate of employment. Except, of course, for the really rigorous dangerous occupations, such as coal mining. More robots should be used in coal mining.
I agree - coal mining should be saved only for robots or humans that we don't like anymore. I volunteer any of my firebelly newts for a future study of yours, KT. Just as long as they don't get hurt in the process! I can even fly over with them to bring them to you and then that will give me an excuse to come to Sweden!!!
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