This post was contributed by Jesse S. Boehm, the Associate Director of the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. The notion of cancer precision medicine seems so simple! Take a patient’s tumor sample, use cutting edge genomic technologies to map the mutations ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Stephanie Hays, a scientist with a passion for photosynthetic communities, microbial interactions, and science education. Disclaimer: The views presented in this article are those of the author do not represent a formal stance taken by ...
This post was contributed by guest bloggers Samantha Zyontz and Neil Thompson from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor Feng Zhang’s original 2013 gene editing paper on CRISPR/Cas amassed nearly 2,400 citations in its first four years (1). In addition to publishing in ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Joe Mellor, Founder and CEO of seqWell Inc. Plasmids and PCR products are the bread and butter of molecular biology labs the world over. Scientists have traditionally used Sanger sequencing to validate these constructs, as the ...
Last updated on Oct 14, 2020 by Seth Kasowitz. This post was contributed by the gene editing team at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. Learn more by visiting the Allen Cell Explorer at allencell.org and the Allen Institute website at alleninstitute.org. A classic challenge ...
This post was contributed by Scott Findlay, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. If you’re like many researchers these days, you are ready to take (if you haven’t already) the plunge into the world of precision genome editing. When it comes time to (hopefully) ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Subhadra Jayaraman, a doctoral candidate at Binghamton University Cancer is one of the greatest examples of survival of the fittest. Cancer cells find a way to grow haywire, access and create more vasculature to feed themselves, use the ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Gary McDowell, executive director of Future of Research. On December 1st 2016, many postdocs working more than 40 hours per week could expect to see their salary raised to at least a new legal minimum of $47,476 per year, under updates ...
