Alex has spent the beginning of the summer investigating the effects of the selected aptamers on the morphology and crystallinity of calcium carbonate. Although there is a lot of TEM and FT-IR to do, there is some leftover work with calcium phosphate. Alongside calcium carbonate experiments, Alex has been testing the affinity of the DNA to calcium phosphate using a FAM labeled aptamer. A test run was performed and the aptamer successfully attached to the mineralized calcium phosphate and fluoresced!
Alex Paige ’20 – fun with fluorescence
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