This post was contributed by Jacob Lazarus, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. There’s an astounding number of ways to create chromosomal mutations in bacteria, so many that it may be difficult to decide which path to take. A quick and easy way to introduce a mutation in the ...
This post was contributed by Katherine Rogers, a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Miescher Lab of the Max Planck Society. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have been used since the 1930’s in a range of biological studies, including investigations into environmental pollutants and ...
This post was contributed by Magdalena Julkowska, a postdoctoral researcher at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. From the perspective of an author submitting a paper, the peer-review seems like another dragon to slay on the way to publish your work in a scientific journal. The peer-review is ...
This post was contributed by Samuel Mortensen, a PhD candidate at Northeastern University. Working with plants doesn’t always have to be a time-consuming process. While developing transgenic hairy root lines in tissue cultures takes half a year, and generating a transgenic plant ...
This post was contributed by Patrick Miller-Rhodes, a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellow at University of Rochester Medical Center. During development, complex genetic programs specify and assemble diverse arrays of neurons, forming the neuronal circuits that will later ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Chinmaya Sadangi, a postdoc at the University of Toronto. The Addictive Brain was founded in early 2018 with the goal of communicating science to non-scientists. Chinmaya Sadangi, a postdoc at the University of Toronto, created The ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Joachim Goedart, an assistant professor at the Section of Molecular Cytology and van Leeuwenhoek Centre for Advanced Microscopy (University of Amsterdam). Tagging a protein of interest with a fluorescent protein to study its function is ...
This post was contributed by Erik Snapp, the Director of Student and Postdoctoral Programs at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Are you currently on or planning to go on the academic job market? In addition to all of the documents you submit, ...
