July 16th

Today I prepared the next three trials for the second series, and ran two of them. Everything is going well so far. One thing that I am considering is running a trial at a higher concentration. I think it would be interesting to see if only diluting the solution to 50X or 20X had any effect on the results. I think part of the reason that the results are going so wacky for the higher concentrations of initial magnesium is that the precipitated DNA concentration is so low. I think that running it at a higher concentration would help get accurate data for the higher points. Unfortunately, we don't have enough sample right now to do this several times, so I will have to plan it carefully to conserve sample. We also had our meeting updating everyone on progress, and also describing some of the work we still need to do.