By Mike Lacy
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Biomedical research has a long and well-documented history of racial bias, which still impacts and influences current research. Understanding the depth and breadth of this bias, and then using that understanding to intentionally remove racial bias from work being done today, is ...
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You’ve committed to the daunting task of finding new factors in your biological system of interest, the so-called “fishing expedition.” Your first question is: to screen or to select? Which method will work best for your scientific question? If you’re thinking, ‘wait, those ...
This post was originally written by Melina Fan and updated Nov 3, 2022 by Susanna Stroik. You’ve designed your gRNA and introduced it into your target cells with Cas9. Hooray! Now it’s time to make sure your genome edits went according to plan. In this blog post we’ll explain ...
We’ve all heard “Get that tube on ice!!” and “I hope it isn’t degraded” when scientists talk about their precious RNA samples. RNA is inherently less stable than most macromolecules used in scientific research such as DNA or protein. It comes as no surprise then that stability ...
This post was originally written by Joel McDade and significantly updated in 2022 by Susanna Stroik. The advent of CRISPR/Cas9 has made it easier than ever to make precise, targeted genome modifications. Cas9 has been modified to enable researchers to knock out, knock in, base ...
Every few months we highlight a subset of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. Think we missed something hot? You can pitch a Hot Plasmids section (antibodies and viral preps welcome!) here.
