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 ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger James D. Fessenden, an Assistant Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Biochemists often struggle to understand how a protein of interest actually behaves. How large is it? What parts of it move when you feed it substrate or add an ...
Last updated on Oct 1, 2020 by Aliyah Weinstein. This post was contributed by guest bloggers, Wenning Qin and Haoyi Wang. CRISPR/Cas9 is revolutionizing the mouse gene-targeting field. Mice have long been extremely useful in the lab – they are relatively small and easy to work ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Samantha Young. The use of CRISPR/Cas9 for gene editing has expanded since its adaptation for use in mammalian cells in 2012-2013. Researchers are now using this system in ever more creative ways, (Wang et al., 2013, Cho et al., 2014). ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Natalie Niemi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, Wisconsin. It is commonly cited that approximately one-third of cellular proteins are modified through phosphorylation (1). However, the expansion ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Krissy Lyon, a PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Harvard University. Just as computers, cell phones, and cars become more technologically advanced leaving earlier versions obsolete, the techniques we use in lab are replaced by improved ...
This blog post was contributed by guest blogger Kate Palozola Traditional lab notebooks just won't cut it for bioinformatics. All kinds of biologists are finding themselves using computational approaches to analyze large data sets (myself included) and we are faced with finding ...
Addgene is proud to announce that we recently acquired the ability to distribute plasmids with the piggyBac™ transposon. These plasmids, when combined with a source of piggyBac™ transposase (available from a licensed distributor) allow you to quickly transfer a DNA sequence from ...
