by Sarah Angle Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? A checkerboard assay is useful for […]
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Flow Cytometry
by Ahana Mallick Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Flow cytometry rapidly measures and analyzes […]
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Measuring pH: Covering all your bases (and acids)!
by Claire Greene Whitfield Fun Rating: 3 / 5 Difficulty Rating: 3 / 5 What is the general purpose? pH […]
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Complementary (indirect) RNA Sequencing
by Wendy Sun Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Complementary RNA sequencing, or RNA-seq, allows […]
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Multiphoton Microscopy
by Newton PenkoffLidbeck Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Multiphoton microscopy is a type of […]
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Neutralization of Acids/Bases
by Sarah Angle Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Acids and bases are strong chemicals […]
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Centrifugation (Spinning it down!)
by Claire Greene Whitfield Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 1/5 What is the general purpose? Centrifugation is a widely used […]
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Confocal Microscopy
by Jessica Zhang Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Confocal microscopy is used to capture […]
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DNA Methylation Microarrays
by Hazel Milla Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? We can use microarray technology to […]
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Cryosectioning
by Siyao Wang Fun Rating: 2/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Cryosectioning is a lab method in […]
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
by Siyao Wang Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a […]
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Fluorescence-Activating Cell Sorting (FACS)
by Julia Riley Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Fluorescence-Activating Cell Sorting (FACS) is a […]
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Amplicon Sequencing
by Erin Dickert Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Amplicon sequencing is a molecular biology […]
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Morris water maze
by Wendy Sun Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? The purpose of the Morris water […]
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EdU Staining
by Natalie Thomas Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Proliferation is a measurement of how […]
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Transwell Migration Assay
by Hannah Thrash Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists use migration assays to watch […]
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Cre Recombinase
by Natalie Thomas Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 5/5 What is the general purpose? Mouse models are used worldwide to […]
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Evolutionary Simulation
by RP Pornmongkolsuk Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Not all scientific research is done […]
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CRISPR: A New and Emerging Gene Editing Technique
by Ellissa DeFeyter Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? CRISPR (Clustered Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) […]
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Lentiviral Transduction
by Claire Greene Whitfield Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Lentiviral transduction is a technique […]
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