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Visking[edit]

Google finds 663,000 or so references to [+dialysis +tubing] and 662,000 or so for [+dialysis +tubing -Visking] so it doesn't look as though the used of 'visking' as a substitute for 'dialysis' is quite as common as the article suggests. As this is also a refeerence to one particular manufacturer I propose that the references in the article should be removed. Davy p 00:35, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the UK education system this is invariably referred to as Visking Tubing. In fact I found this wiki page by searching 'visking tubing' after having a high school memory and wondering how it was made. The fact that it is a UK educational term is highlighted by the fact that searching for [+visking +tubing -dialysis] finds about 13,000 results, almost all of which are from uk school and university websites. - Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.252.39.13 (talk) 11:05, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

More than a bot[edit]

This page need more than a bot requesting classification. I've edited it to remove references to 'Visking' but it does need more work. All that's needed is a simple explanation of what dialysis tubing is and what it does with appropriate links. I can't see how properly to fit this into an importance scale (it doesn't need to be a large entry, but that doesn't mean it's unimportant), and presently don't have time to do a better job on it ... later Davy p 01:58, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion/Merge[edit]

The first paragraph could just as well go under dialysis, where all that is needed is mention that membranes are also available as tubes as well as sheets and bags. The second para seems to have been copied from another site, and in any event doesn't fit properly. I can't see any good reason not to delete and merge with dialysis. Davy p 23:45, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spamming Wikipedia[edit]

Biologicalworld.com has spammed wikipedia like no tomorrow. He is a site of only a few pages and a LOT of adsense. Not much information is given except for "protocols" which are not referenced, and cannot be trusted from a site of that quality.

check: Links from Wikipedia

The following have been cleaned up:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmid
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel_electrophoresis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fluorescent_protein
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology_(biology)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_enzyme
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_dish
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_domain
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypsin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligonucleotide
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_electron_microscope
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar_plate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_phosphate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfide_bond
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturation_(biochemistry)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_ligase
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_type
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_culture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_electron_microscopy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter_gene
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_blot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_engineering
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_end/blunt_end
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq_polymerase
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_domain
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coomassie
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_state
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Hamster_Ovary_cell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptidase
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visking_tubing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptavidin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtiter_plate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcloning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_exchange_chromatography
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_cycler
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_serum_albumin

and many more Sciencetalks (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 02:53, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Picture stolen?[edit]

While looking on Google, I found this page as one of the first links: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/york/dialysis.html The picture on this article and the one on this site are identical. Does someone really have the license to use this picture or was it stolen? --4like234 (talk) 04:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, since it's from the United States Department of Energy, it's a work of the U.S. federal government. So the image is in the public domain, which means we can use it. - M0rphzone (talk) 11:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's also explained better where the picture was stolen[edit]

It's explained a lot easier on http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/york/dialysis.html. Especially important: This tubing usually comes in rolls and when wet, will open up into a cylindrical tube that can be tied off at the ends. -anon 84.195.161.23 (talk) 12:51, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

osmosis incorrectly defined[edit]

Osmosis is the movement of water through a semipermeable membrane. See definition in Widipedia article on osmosis--DrDrCone (talk) 00:16, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Dialysis tubing/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

This article seemed to have been copied - there was another very similar (non-Wiki) when I looked on Google. The mention of 'Visking' seems to have been product promotion.

It's quite important as a basic definition. Someone who doesn't know what dialysis tubing is would need a succinct and clear explanation. For anyone who knows what dialyis is it's relatively unimportant.

For now, after editing it, I've left the second paragraph which explains 'eductational uses'. But I think that I will go back and remove this. Davy p 02:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 02:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 13:20, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

No suppliers[edit]

I have removed the supplier section. This is too commercial. Wikipedia is not a place to go shopping. Rlsheehan (talk) 20:53, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]