Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!murdu!ian
From: ian@murdu.OZ (Ian Musgrave)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: dna kits
Keywords: dna
Message-ID: <1506@murdu.OZ>
Date: 3 Jan 89 05:55:21 GMT
References: <109@hugin.dmt.oz>
Reply-To: ian@murdu.UUCP (Ian Musgrave)
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <109@hugin.dmt.oz> dhj@hugin.dmt.oz (Dennis Jarvis) writes:
>I would like to build a sizeable model of a dna molecule.
>Can anyone point me in the direction of commercial suppliers of such kits? 
>I believe there is a company in Britain which sells such things, but I 
>can not remember their name, let alone their address.

Commercial models are dammed expensive, there is another solution though.
Some years ago a friend and I made a model af DNA, a fairly hefty one, using
styrofoam spheres that we bough from a local plastic maker. This was very
cheap, however we had to paint all the spheres ourselves, and work out the 
appropriate bond angles. Nonetheless we produced a 6' DNA molecule which
won a prize in a local science competition. 
 
p.s. Are there any pharmacologists out there in net land?
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Ian, the network gnome.