By Susanna Stroik
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Flash quiz! What pops into your head when you hear the phrase “action potential?” Firing neurons are likely the first thing that comes to mind. However, ion-based communication is not just for neurons. Non-neuronal cells do this too. It's just that for non-neural cells, ...
This guest post was contributed by Sana Khan Khilji, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Here are some tips for cell culture that will hopefully help you keep a well organized lab and contamination free environment for successful experiments:
This post was contributed by guest blogger Stephanie Hays, a researcher at the University of California Berkeley. It’s been half a year since the march for science on April 22, 2017. While experiments (and editors) can move slowly, news about possible broad changes to policies ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Sean D. Stacey. Opinions on the apps discussed in the article are those of the guest blogger and do not necessarily represent the views of Addgene. I think it’s safe to assume that anyone reading this article has a smartphone nearby. We ...
The post was contributed by guest blogger Londa Schiebinger, PhD, Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University. Sex and gender are critical components of biological research that are often forgotten or ignored. If we wish to conduct research that fails less and ...
This blog post was contributed by guest blogger Kate Palozola Traditional lab notebooks just won't cut it for bioinformatics. All kinds of biologists are finding themselves using computational approaches to analyze large data sets (myself included) and we are faced with finding ...
This post was contributed by ATCC Outreach Scientist Nick Amiss. Cell culture in the present day Cell culture is a widespread tool used in the fields of oncology, virology, immunology, microbiology, and pharmacology (many of which are represented in Addgene's Special ...