avoided people fretting about the computer,
ground roots of maize in boiling liquid nitrogen,
extracted RNA, concentrating the expressed genes.
But a beautiful day and a bike ride to the botanic
gardens to pot up mutant maize, a stroll to the
aseptic growth chamber in old biochemistry building
sealed with a sliding steel bolt, checked on
transgenic baby weeds, waiting for them to seed.
Fan lights and controlled temperature, though
warmer today with the sun outside
(actually broken - - the room over the weekend
overheated killing all plants inside)
People lounging in square of grass between the labs,
me popping in at the back door under the arch of live
old ginko, quite happy!
I speak briefly to the saleswoman from Stratagene
about cloning supplies, pretend I'm buying plasmids,
enzymes, sequencing systems
(cambridge)
