By Tyler Ford
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Remember the game show “The $25,000 Pyramid” where one player tries to get the other to guess a category by listing off things that fall into that category? Okay, let’s play. I’ll list the examples and you try to guess the category: ELISA... qPCR... Digital droplet PCR... DNA ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Gene therapy technologies hold great promise for improving or potentially curing human diseases that were previously thought to be incurable. Rapid advances in next generation sequencing technologies have ...
Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are the most frequently used gene-transfer tools in the study of the brain and spinal cord, which together are known as the central nervous system (CNS). AAVs are popular tools because: 1) their genomes are easy to manipulate, 2) they have ...
Updated Jun 1, 2021 by Meghan Rego. Reproducible data are key to science, so scientists are used to repeating experiments to confirm their findings. But no scientist wants to repeat an experiment because of poor reagent quality. To make sure our AAV vectors are of the highest ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Katrina Armstrong, a Neurophysiology Msc Student at the University of Manitoba. Location, Location, Location! Failure to Plan (for Storage) Is Planning to Fail Patience Is Bitter but Its Fruit Is Sweet The Future? I knew little about ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Derek Simon. Optogenetics is spreading through the neuroscience community like wildfire and for good reason. For the first time in the history of neuroscience research we have a technology that allows us to show causality in neural ...
