Solving The Mystery of the Running Speeder Bikes

This week I ran another PCR because Matt thought it would be better than nothing. I was not able to understand why I was not receiving any bands in my gels. I made some fresh gels yesterday and ran my fresh amplified DNA in hopes to see if there would be some polymorphic bands. To my astonishment/relief, there were bands! But now there is a new mystery to solve. The gels seemed to have stars in them when put under the UV light. We are not sure if this was due to the DNA running off in little fragments or maybe the agarose was not cooked fully. We are all on the case and I will try my best to figure this out soon enough!