This post was contributed by guest blogger Katrin Michel. Cre-lox is an incredibly popular and powerful site specific recombinase (SSR) system, but it only gives you a single level of control without modification - either Cre is there or it’s not. Cre-mediated possibilities for ...
This post was contributed by Tim Herman, director of the MSOE center for BioMolecular Modeling and the CEO of 3-D Molecular Designs. Have you ever held your favorite protein in the palm of our hand? Well, actually – have you ever held a model of your favorite protein in your ...
This post was contributed by Mary Tamer from BioBuilder, an innovative nonprofit bringing the study of synthetic biology into the hands of students and teachers in the U.S. and beyond. “I want to learn more about Synthetic Biology. Can you tell me where to start?” is a question ...
This post was contributed by Doug Richardson, Director of the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging and a Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. No matter whether you are a sports photographer at the Super Bowl, a medical technologist taking an x-ray, ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Sarah Schmidt, a Marie Curie Fellow at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Are you a science student or early career researcher looking to break into science communication? Everybody goes about this in their own way. The career paths into science ...
This post was contributed by guest writer Pamela J. Hines PhD, Senior Editor at Science Magazine. Although we only walk one path at a time, the variety of paths in life is mind-boggling. Unlike a mountain – with many routes up and only one destination – a career in the sciences ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Iris Lindberg, Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In the Lindberg Lab we often make cell lines that overexpress genes of interest; more recently we have also been using Addgene CRISPR vectors to generate cell ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Lydia Morrison from New England Biolabs. What is DNA assembly? In the context of cloning, DNA assembly refers to a method of physically joining multiple fragments of DNA to create a synthetically designed DNA sequence. There are ...
