Hopefully you know that, if you’re an academic researcher at a nonprofit institution, you can order plasmids covering a wide range of fields from Addgene. What you might not know is that Addgene distributes curated collections of plasmids as kits with greatly reduced costs per ...
This post was contributed by guest bloggers Keith Pardee and Alexander A. Green. Zika background First identified in 1947 in Uganda, the Zika virus had received little attention and, for the most part, had been associated with low morbidity and mild symptoms. This changed in ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Nathaniel Roquet, a PhD student in the Harvard Biophysics program and researcher in the Lu Lab at MIT. Note: The following blog post reduces the content of our paper, “Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells” (1), ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Natalie Niemi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison, Wisconsin. It is commonly cited that approximately one-third of cellular proteins are modified through phosphorylation (1). However, the expansion ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Jessica Polka, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Pamela Silver. Most types of biological motion (whether endocytosis, vesicle trafficking, or muscle contractions) are produced by orchestrated movements of networks of proteins ...
When cancers are treated with drugs designed to hit them right where it hurts, the effects are often remarkable but fleeting. “What’s been shown by others is that, in a relatively short amount of time, cancers become resistant to drugs, particularly targeted therapies,” said ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Tessa Cressey. The highly pathogenic Ebola virus belongs to the group of nonsegmented negative sense RNA viruses, along with other viruses that cause disease in humans such as measles, mumps, and rabies. Research on Ebola virus has been ...
Site-directed mutagenesis (SDM) is one of the key tools researchers use to prove causation in molecular biology and genetics. It can be used to characterize the function of certain regions in a promoter or gene, as well as to study the effects of inactivating/activating ...
