{"id":6077,"date":"2026-08-18T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/?p=6077"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:55:55","slug":"never-too-early-to-start-cloning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/never-too-early-to-start-cloning\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Too Early to Start Cloning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6078 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2.jpg 591w, https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Matilda Vyhn\u00e1lkov\u00e1<\/strong>, a high school student, worked in our lab during 2025 and 2026. She successfully cloned her first plasmid and mastered PCR, plasmid minipreps from <em>E. coli<\/em>, all the key steps of molecular cloning, and bacterial transformation. Proof that you don\u2019t need a university degree to start cloning &#8211; you just need curiosity, patience, and some cooperative bacteria! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matilda Vyhn\u00e1lkov\u00e1, a high school student, worked in our lab during 2025 and 2026. She successfully cloned her first plasmid and mastered PCR, plasmid minipreps from E. coli, all the key steps of molecular cloning, and bacterial transformation. Proof that you don\u2019t need a university degree to start cloning &#8211; you just need curiosity, patience, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2.jpg",591,620,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2-286x300.jpg",286,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2.jpg",591,620,false],"large":["https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2.jpg",591,620,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2.jpg",591,620,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/matilda2.jpg",591,620,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"hnilicova","author_link":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/author\/hnilicova\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Matilda Vyhn\u00e1lkov\u00e1, a high school student, worked in our lab during 2025 and 2026. She successfully cloned her first plasmid and mastered PCR, plasmid minipreps from E. coli, all the key steps of molecular cloning, and bacterial transformation. Proof that you don\u2019t need a university degree to start cloning &#8211; you just need curiosity, patience,&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6080,"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions\/6080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/molbio\/hnilicovalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}