This post was contributed by Ignacio Amigo and María Hernández Sánchez from Crowdfight. In March 2020, while most of the world was locked down, a South African company wanted to test if a type of antibodies from an Andean mammal called alpaca could neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 ...
This post was contributed by Adriana Galvan, an associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine. Optogenetics and chemogenetics are powerful tools to modulate the activity of neurons and other brain cells. Since the opsins or chemogenetic receptors used in these ...
Originally published Apr 13, 2021 and last updated Aug 12, 2021. This post was contributed by guest bloggers, Yiwen Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Yang Lab, Qi Li, a lecturer at Sichuan Normal University, Jieze Zhang, an intern in the Yang Lab, and Sheng Yang, a professor in ...
This post was contributed by Matteo Tardelli, a postdoctoral scientist at Weill Cornell Medicine.
This blog post was contributed by guest bloggers Roodolph (Roo) P. St Pierre and Rose C. St Pierre, founders of STEAMid. Internships open doors to a web of opportunities that the classroom cannot offer. Furthermore, companies across most industries tend to hire their former ...
Originally published Jan 27, 2015 and last updated Dec 17, 2020. This post was contributed by Jordan Ward who is an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Emerging CRISPR/Cas9 editing technologies have transformed the palette of experiments possible in ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Leo Vo, a PhD candidate in the Sternberg Lab at Columbia University Medical Center. DNA transposons are ubiquitous genetic elements capable of spreading within and between genomes, and have been adapted for a wide variety of ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Rachel Rubinstein, a field-based software product manager at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. If the first thing you hear when someone says they’re a software product manager is “project manager,” you’re not alone. A few years ago when I ...
