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:
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Tea Pavlek, Product Marketing Manager at sciNote. Today, every lab has its own habits and approaches to record keeping. Top priorities in most cases include IP protection, publications and funding. If any of these three pillars ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Pooran Dewari, a postdoc in Steve Pollard’s lab at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM), Edinburgh. Most commercial antibodies do not work in pull-down assays: Epitope tagging provides a solution Proteins - the workhorses of ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Behnam Nabet, a postdoctoral fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Targeted protein degradation In the Bradner and Gray labs, we synthesize compounds that enable selective removal of proteins-of-interest from the proteome. Rather than ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Clare O'Connor an Associate Professor at Boston College. National reports stress the importance of providing authentic research experiences to undergraduate students (1, 2), but educators face significant challenges in designing ...
