This post was contributed by guest blogger, Luke Lavis, a Group Leader at the Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Chemistry is dead, long live chemistry! The discovery of green fluorescent protein (GFP) sparked a renaissance in biological imaging. Suddenly, ...
This post was contributed by guest bloggers Keith Pardee and Alexander A. Green. Zika background First identified in 1947 in Uganda, the Zika virus had received little attention and, for the most part, had been associated with low morbidity and mild symptoms. This changed in ...
Last updated Oct 7, 2020 by Gabrielle Clouse. This post was contributed by guest bloggers Marcelle Tuttle and Alex Chavez, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. CRISPR/Cas9 is an enormously plastic tool and has taken the scientific world by ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Aneesh Karve, CTO at Quilt Data. This post was originally published on the Quilt Genomics Blog and is republished here with permission. Quilt is a collaborative database for genomics. In this article, Quilt CTO Aneesh Karve, shows how ...
Update (November 18, 2016): Researchers from a variety of institutions recently reported their inability to recapitulate the results of Gao et al 2016 in a letter to Protein & Cell. Update (August 3rd, 2017) THE ORIGINAL NgAgo ARTICLE DISCUSSED IN THIS POST HAS BEEN ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Kristian Laursen from Cornell University. Site directed mutagenesis is a highly versatile technique that can be used to introduce specific nucleotide substitutions (or deletions) in a tailored manner. The approach can be used in ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Nathaniel Roquet, a PhD student in the Harvard Biophysics program and researcher in the Lu Lab at MIT. Note: The following blog post reduces the content of our paper, “Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells” (1), ...
The post was contributed by guest blogger Londa Schiebinger, PhD, Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University. Sex and gender are critical components of biological research that are often forgotten or ignored. If we wish to conduct research that fails less and ...
