Born to a family in Malawi that pushed science education, Kingdom Kwapata grew up to be one of the best of the best students in his home country. He was selected as one of 600 scholars among 100,000 eligible to attend the University of Malawi where he focused on agricultural ...
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 ...
We recently sat down with Addgene Board Member, depositor, and Harvard Medical School researcher Connie Cepko. Listen to the podcast below to hear all about the research being conducted in Professor Cepko's lab and to get some insight into her management and mentoring styles. If ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Derek Simon.
This post was contributed by guest blogger Derek Simon. The surgeries and standard molecular neuroscience validation experiments we discussed last week are only half of the battle when using optogentics to answer a research question. The flip side of the optogenetics coin is ...
It’s well known that exercise can help fight stress and depression, and now researchers have reported a mechanism based on studies of transgenic mice that helps to explain how it works. The findings in a recent issue of Cell demonstrate how PGC-1a1, a transcriptional coactivator ...
It’s pretty hard to escape news and fears of Ebola these days, as the infectious disease once limited to small pockets in Africa has spread to urban areas and across the ocean. A nurse in Dallas was the first to be infected in the United States while caring for a patient, ...
This post was contributed by Neil J. McKenna and Bert W. O’Malley. Survival of all organisms depends on efficient energy maintenance - through acquisition, storage, and utilization - and on self-propagation by reproduction. Both physiological processes are controlled by ...
