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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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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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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by Chelsea Smith Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is often […]
Continue readingCytometry 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 […]
Continue readingPrimary cell culture
by Abby Poff Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Primary cell culture is an in […]
Continue readingCalculating 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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by Olivia Conway Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Although the genetic engineering we read […]
Continue readingMicro 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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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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by Henry Dieckhaus Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 1/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists often want to know how […]
Continue readingIsolating 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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By Chelsea Smith Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Yeast-two-hybrid screens are used to determine […]
Continue readingViral Growth Curves
by Margaret Dedloff Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 Viral growth curves allow scientists to observe how a virus grows […]
Continue readingMouse Handling and Restraint
by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: Mouse Handling and Restraint Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? […]
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by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: Histology Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists use histology […]
Continue readingCulturing Human Brain Organoids
By Brandon Le Technique Name: Culturing human brain organoids Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 5/5 What is the general purpose? […]
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by Mariah Jones Technique Name: DNA Extraction Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? The goal […]
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by Danica Dy Technique Name: Lineage Tracing Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 5/5 What is the general purpose? Genes provide […]
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