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From: werner@aecom.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Life Classification ...further comments
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Date: Sat, 13-Jun-87 00:13:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 13 00:13:21 1987
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In article <393@uhnix2.UUCP>, bchso@uhnix2.UUCP (Dan Davison) writes:
> 
> I was a grad student at SUNY Stony Brook and had occasion to hang out at
> the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from time to time.  Doug Hanahan 
> worked there and before he published the recipe the reagent mix mentioned
> by proto-doctor Werner was commonly referred to as "liquid gold".
> 
	Actually, there's more to it than that.  The combination of
MnCl2 (which is slightly pinkish) and the Hexamine Cobalt Chloride
actually lead to a transformation buffer which can only be described 
as a brilliant gold color. 
-- 
			      Craig Werner (MD/PhD '91)
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              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
      "Illness strips away superficiality to reveal reality in etched detail."