Having a bad day? My lucky Ace of Spades banana can help. Scientifically endorsed by Lemmy's ghost. 🧪

Grant Instruments is making a customised precision water bath, with 200 litre capacity, for a top UK university. For reference, that's the volume of a UK wheelie bin, as modeled by the charity runner below. DM me if you need unusual temp control solutions in your lab 🧪

If you're working on organoids, DM me to improve workflow and yields, using controlled, reproducible freeze-thaw processes.🧪

Winter dusk, crescent moon, Venus (above moon). 🧪

Science doesn't stop for Christmas. Kudos if you're a Cold Room Queen, or Genetics Genie, tending to your experiments over the holidays. See if you can invent pure green, like this guy. 🧪

Chemistry in cells isn't like in buffer. Cells are crowded. Diffusion and reaction rates vary with temp. Accuracy is vital! Check your setup: +/-2C won't cut it. www.grantinstruments.com/product-grou...
Mycoplasma genitalium image: Martina Maritan, Scripps Research. ccsb.scripps.edu/gallery/myco...

Bacteriophage T4 infecting E. coli.
Beautiful illustration by by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank and Scripps Research. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-048

Last long run (16km) this morning before Christmas. Now for a week of unscientific carb-loading🧪

Synthetic Biology - the Live Album!

🧬 Meat without killing animals
🧬 Helping crops adapt to climate change
🧬 Using bacteria to clean up contaminated soils
🧬 New vaccines before pandemics

My latest podcast, recorded at Synthetic Biology UK 2024 last month 🧪

open.spotify.com/episode/7q15...

"I saw the crescent.
You saw the whole of the moon"
The Waterboys, 1985*.

Bright full moon last night, even through cloud. Great corona effect not, quite caught by my phone. 🧪

*Look it up on Spotify. A belter of a tune for a Sunday morning.

Synthetic Biology podcast ep coming Monday! I'll cover this very wide field in "The Big Experiment" (hear prev. eps: open.spotify.com/show/7bFVmqI...). New shows every 2 wks.
[Diagram: B. Ghosh, Emerg. Top. Life Sci. (2022) 6 (6): 619–627]

Please don't thaw critical cell lines in water baths, Cillian!
Grant Instruments' solid-state ❄️CRFT❄️ thaws cells (or anything else) gently, reproducibly, with no liquids to contaminate them. It also freezes to -100C, with exquisite control. All with less benchtop footprint than a water bath. 🧪

We make lab equipment. Especially high-precision heating / cooling / freezing / thawing for life science and biomedical research. Message me with any tricky temp control challenges and I'll try to help. No hard sell. 🧪
www.grantinstruments.com