This post was contributed by Kusumika (Kushi) Mukherjee. The ultimate goal in the field of regenerative medicine is to replace lost or damaged cells. Here, I will discuss the two major processes by which an adult somatic cell is converted to a different cell type for ...
This post was contributed by Kusumika (Kushi) Mukherjee, editor of Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, a Cell Press reviews journal. Stem cells are special types of cells that can develop or “differentiate” into more specialized cells with specific functions [1]. In many ...
This post was contributed by Laura Lee, a graduate student at Stanford University. Arabidopsis is a fantastic model organism for many reasons, not the least of which is ease of transformation. There are many motivations to generate transgenic Arabidopsis, from studying ...
This post was contributed by Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Plasmid cloning is an essential part of any molecular biology project, yet very often, it is also a bottleneck in the experimental process. The majority of current ...
This post was contributed by guest bloggers Becky Kucera, M.Sc. and Eric Cantor, Ph.D. from New England Biolabs. Golden gate assembly limitations Embraced by the synthetic biology community, Golden Gate Assembly is commonly used to assemble 2–10 DNA fragments in a single ...
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. Today's postdoctoral fellows (PFs) face a number of challenges ranging from long periods of training to limited job ...
This guest post was contributed by Johnny Kung, Director of New Initiatives for the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd). Advances in genetic technologies and other biomedical innovations promise an improved understanding of how our bodies work, new treatments for ...
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). GFP is the most popular, most widely used genetically encoded fluorescent probe. ...
