The latest featured Nature Protocol is entitled: Spatially and temporally controlled electroporation of early chick embryos and is for electroporation of expression vectors and morpholino oligonucleotides into the chick embryo epiblast.
It contains some really good videos showing you how to do the experiment, and some look like they are techniques that will be useful for many other studies. The first one shows how to break the shell by tapping the blunt end using coarse forceps, then open a round window, removing any sharp edges.
This really pleased me as it is actually something we did in a development biology practical and brought back memories of when every week brought new methods to learn! I was very enthusiastic about “doing experiments”, but was unfortunately a bit accident prone.
Click here for the complete list of videos from this article.
To browse other instructional movies on the Nature Protocols site click here.
Ah, this reminds me why I gave up on benchwork.
Hmmm, this does give me an idea for an “alternative” set of videos. Labwork by Mere Mortals.
I like the Mere Mortals video-idea!
Where was my camera on that fateful extraction-of-annexin-from-placenta-fumehood-bloodbath day….
Are there any sites with good anecdotes of experimental bloopers?