This post was contributed by guest blogger Jon Chow, an immunology PhD student at Harvard University. In my previous two posts, I’ve described the fundamentals of how to work with Drosophila as an experimental model organism. I then described the Gal4/UAS system used by ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Jon Chow, an immunology PhD student at Harvard University. In this second post in our quick guide to working with Drosophila, you’ll learn how to maniupate expression of your favorite gene (YFG) in flies. Read the first post here. Once ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Jon Chow, an immunology PhD student at Harvard University. Do you have a gene of interest but have run into a wall trying to study it? It happens. Is it an evolutionarily conserved gene? Can you find an ortholog in the Drosophila ...
Darrell Kotton is the director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Boston University Medical School. Darrell’s research focuses on the lungs, and, among other projects, using stem cells to develop in vitro models for lung disease. Darrell strives to promote open source ...
Research tackling questions in the fields of Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity, as well as various combinations thereof (so called “Immuno-Oncology”) is exploding. Researchers are increasingly able to harness the body’s immune system to fight progressing cancers. It was ...
We’re breaking into more audio and video on the Addgene Blog and Addgene website. As we push forward with these efforts, you’ll find new ways to learn about science careers, lab protocols, and, of course, plasmids. Today we’re trying a new way to present plasmid info with a new ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Stephanie Hays, a scientist with a passion for photosynthetic communities, microbial interactions, and science education. Disclaimer: The views presented in this article are those of the author do not represent a formal stance taken by ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Subhadra Jayaraman, a doctoral candidate at Binghamton University Cancer is one of the greatest examples of survival of the fittest. Cancer cells find a way to grow haywire, access and create more vasculature to feed themselves, use the ...
