This post was contributed by Kutubuddin Molla, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University. Imagine you are dealing with a defective gene, Xm, the sequence of which is identical to the correct gene, Xw, except for a single base. If you heard about CRISPR, ...
This post was contributed by Kelly Hills, founding bioethicist of Rogue Bioethics. On November 25, the MIT Technology Review dropped a bombshell report. A scientist working in China was using CRISPR/Cas9 in an attempt to create gene-edited babies. Several hours later, the ...
Updated Apr 6, 2021. This post was contributed by Laura Desrochers, a postdoctoral scientist at AstraZeneca. Why I chose an industry postdoc I’m currently doing an industry postdoc in neuroscience at AstraZeneca’s Waltham site after doing a brief academic postdoc. Why did I ...
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 ...
