This post was contributed by guest blogger Jack Leeming Editor of Naturejobs, part of Nature magazine. Humans are built to enjoy, remember, and listen to narratives — take advantage of that in your work The part of my job I most enjoy is building and telling interesting stories ...
This post was contributed by Kusumika (Kushi) Mukherjee, a Postdoc at Massachussetts General Hospital. A little over a decade back when Yamanaka and colleagues reported that it is possible to reprogram differentiated cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by the ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Girija Goyal, cofounder of ReFigure. Reading and exploration including replications and experiments resulting in “negative data” often dominate the early years of a project. Dissemination of the knowledge gained during this period ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Gene therapy technologies hold great promise for improving or potentially curing human diseases that were previously thought to be incurable. Rapid advances in next generation sequencing technologies have ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Stephanie Hays, a researcher at the University of California Berkeley. It’s been half a year since the march for science on April 22, 2017. While experiments (and editors) can move slowly, news about possible broad changes to policies ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Katrin Michel. Cre-lox is an incredibly popular and powerful site specific recombinase (SSR) system, but it only gives you a single level of control without modification - either Cre is there or it’s not. Cre-mediated possibilities for ...
This post was contributed by Tim Herman, director of the MSOE center for BioMolecular Modeling and the CEO of 3-D Molecular Designs. Have you ever held your favorite protein in the palm of our hand? Well, actually – have you ever held a model of your favorite protein in your ...
This post was contributed by Mary Tamer from BioBuilder, an innovative nonprofit bringing the study of synthetic biology into the hands of students and teachers in the U.S. and beyond. “I want to learn more about Synthetic Biology. Can you tell me where to start?” is a question ...
