This post was contributed by the Open Repository of CRISPR Screens. Imagine you’ve just discovered that your favorite gene was described in a CRISPR screen publication. You see this mentioned in the results section, but you had to dig through the supplemental files to see the ...
This post was contributed by Deborah Sweet, Vice President of Editorial at Cell Press. Almost everyone who works in a lab struggles with reproducibility at some point. Usually it comes up when a researcher decides on a new project and begins by trying to reproduce someone else’s ...
This post was contributed by Alessia Armezzani, scientific communication manager at genOway. A few decades ago, the brain remained elusive, not from a lack of intellectual curiosity on the part of scientists but, rather, from the limited technologies available. Over the past few ...
This post was contributed by Oskar Laur, head of the custom cloning core at Emory University, and Paolo Colombi, a product development scientist at Addgene. Cloning can be quite an arduous process. The PCR could fail to produce a product, the transformation may not result in any ...
This post was contributed by Brittany L. Uhlorn, a PhD Candidate at the University of Arizona. Perhaps you’re about to present your first scientific poster, but unsure how best to prepare. Maybe you’re a presentation veteran, but have difficulty answering questions. Or perhaps ...
This post was contributed by Jacob Lazarus, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. There’s an astounding number of ways to create chromosomal mutations in bacteria, so many that it may be difficult to decide which path to take. A quick and easy way to introduce a mutation in the ...
This post was contributed by Katherine Rogers, a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Miescher Lab of the Max Planck Society. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have been used since the 1930’s in a range of biological studies, including investigations into environmental pollutants and ...
This post was contributed by Magdalena Julkowska, a postdoctoral researcher at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. From the perspective of an author submitting a paper, the peer-review seems like another dragon to slay on the way to publish your work in a scientific journal. The peer-review is ...
