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Originally Posted by formulaterp
Wow, what a tough one Arneb. Are you a microbiologist by an chance?
There is a bacteriophage known as M13 which is apparently used for cloning and gene therapy research. Most of us would recognize the term as a globular cluster in Hercules.
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I am not a microbiologist, only a physician. I indeeed used M13 bacteriophage for site-directed mutagenesis experiments during my M.D. thesis work (12 years ago).
The manual for the mutagenesis kit had a photo of the M13 globular on its front page. That was how I got the idea.
Here and
here are micrographs of the phage.
ATM, you always seem to be the one who finds the little flaws in my questions.
#-o - I have been doing amateur astronomy for a bit of time now, and I never came across the name "Great Hercules cluster" - It was always just M13. Maybe I shouldn't have put too much emphasis on language use here, as I am not a native speaker of English. Sorry if I put you off the right track with this one.
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