by Caroline Aufgebauer Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Ribonucleic acid (RNA) Immunoprecipitation Sequencing, or […]
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Western Blot
by Jamie Liu Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Western blots are used to separate […]
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Optogenetics
by Michaela Price Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists can change an animal’s behavior […]
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Protein Purification
by Luca Montore Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Protein purification is a technique that […]
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Gel Electrophoresis
by Brianna Almeida Fun Rating: 2/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? The purpose of gel electrophoresis is […]
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Spatial Transcriptomics
by Kerstin Baran Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 5/5 What is the general purpose? Spatial transcriptomics is a cutting-edge technique […]
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Transient Transfection
by Olivia Conway Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Transient transfection enables the temporary expression […]
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Antibiotic kill curves
by Jamie Liu Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? This tells the scientist how bacteria […]
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ATAC-seq
by Tiffany Ko Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? The Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin (ATAC) […]
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siRNA Knockdown
by Chelsea Smith Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is often […]
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Cytometry by time-of-flight (CyTOF)
by Hazel Milla Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Mass cytometry, also called cytometry by […]
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Primary cell culture
by Abby Poff Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Primary cell culture is an in […]
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Calculating colony forming units (CFUs)
by Leslie Kent Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Microorganisms, like bacteria, are living things […]
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Gibson Assembly
by Olivia Conway Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Although the genetic engineering we read […]
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Micro Computed Tomography (micro-CT) Imaging
by Yasemin Cole Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? This imaging technique utilizes x-rays to […]
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Fluorescent transcriptional reporters
by Leslie Kent Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? During gene expression, DNA is transcribed […]
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Linear Regression
by Henry Dieckhaus Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 1/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists often want to know how […]
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Isolating Protein from Cells
by Macy Osborne-Frazier Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Isolating protein from cells allows a […]
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Yeast-Two-Hybrid
By Chelsea Smith Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Yeast-two-hybrid screens are used to determine […]
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Viral Growth Curves
by Margaret Dedloff Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 Viral growth curves allow scientists to observe how a virus grows […]
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