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. ...
This guest post was contributed by Ally Huang is a 4th year PhD student at MIT. While I had always enjoyed learning about biology in high school, it wasn’t until I started working in my first molecular biology lab in college that I really fell in love with it. Something about ...
This guest post was contributed by Nathan Sanders of ComSciCon, the Communicating Science Conference series for graduate students. I believe that communication is the single most important skill that scientists need to succeed in their work. While it's not always recognized and ...
This guest post was contributed by Marco Straccia, an Associate Professor at University of Barcelona. The challenge: Making courses on genetic manipulation more hands on While teaching courses about gene therapy and genetic manipulation, I and other professors at the University ...
This guest post was contributed by Sana Khan Khilji, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Here are some tips for cell culture that will hopefully help you keep a well organized lab and contamination free environment for successful experiments:
