This post was contributed by guest blogger Tessa Cressey. The highly pathogenic Ebola virus belongs to the group of nonsegmented negative sense RNA viruses, along with other viruses that cause disease in humans such as measles, mumps, and rabies. Research on Ebola virus has been ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Melanie Fox, founder and executive director of Central Indiana Science Outreach and a Postdoc at Indiana University School of Medicine. It’s not always easy to figure out what you want to do after graduate school, at least not while ...
This post was contributed by guest bloggers and IMP organizers Rosario F. Godino, Rocío López-Diego, & Zafira Castano Corsino. When someone says “internationalization” young hearts often shake with the fear of uncertainty. However, internationalization, the ability to cross ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Cameron MacPherson at the Institut Pasteur CRISPR software and the piñata effect Two years ago I was a part of a group (Biology of Host-parasite Interactions, Institut Pasteur, Paris) that changed genome editing in the malaria community ...
This post was contributed by guest bloggers Erik L. Snapp and Lindsey M. Costantini. "You underestimate the power of the Dark Side." --Darth Vader in "Return of the Jedi" While Vader was referring to the evil side of a mystical "Force," this quote is equally applicable to many ...
The second Boston Symposium on the Future of Research will be held from 22-24 October. This blog has been contributed by guest blogger and Future of Research Symposium organizer, David T. Riglar PhD. Here, Dr. Riglar discusses one of the six panel discussions to be held at the ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Derek Simon.
This post was contributed by guest blogger Derek Simon. The surgeries and standard molecular neuroscience validation experiments we discussed last week are only half of the battle when using optogentics to answer a research question. The flip side of the optogenetics coin is ...
