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An estimated 320,000 viruses can infect mammals. Even more abundant are the Earth’s estimated 1031 bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria), many of which are doing important work in our microbiomes. Given that viruses are everywhere and doing everything, it can be annoying ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Aneesh Karve, CTO at Quilt Data. This post was originally published on the Quilt Genomics Blog and is republished here with permission. Quilt is a collaborative database for genomics. In this article, Quilt CTO Aneesh Karve, shows how ...
To better highlight the great content contributed by our bloggers each and every month, we've decided to start an "Editor's Choice" series. Each month, I'll summarize the most popular post of the month and point out one or more additional posts that deserve a peek in case you ...
Update (November 18, 2016): Researchers from a variety of institutions recently reported their inability to recapitulate the results of Gao et al 2016 in a letter to Protein & Cell. Update (August 3rd, 2017) THE ORIGINAL NgAgo ARTICLE DISCUSSED IN THIS POST HAS BEEN ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Kristian Laursen from Cornell University. Site directed mutagenesis is a highly versatile technique that can be used to introduce specific nucleotide substitutions (or deletions) in a tailored manner. The approach can be used in ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Nathaniel Roquet, a PhD student in the Harvard Biophysics program and researcher in the Lu Lab at MIT. Note: The following blog post reduces the content of our paper, “Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells” (1), ...
The post was contributed by guest blogger Londa Schiebinger, PhD, Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University. Sex and gender are critical components of biological research that are often forgotten or ignored. If we wish to conduct research that fails less and ...
