Category: Techniques

by Olivia Conway Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Although the genetic engineering we read […]

Micro Computed Tomography (micro-CT) Imaging

Techniques

March 4, 2024 admin

by Yasemin Cole Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? This imaging technique utilizes x-rays to […]

Fluorescent transcriptional reporters

Techniques

December 18, 2023 admin

by Leslie Kent Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? During gene expression, DNA is transcribed […]

Linear Regression

Techniques

November 17, 2023 admin No comments

by Henry Dieckhaus Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 1/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists often want to know how […]

Isolating Protein from Cells

Techniques

November 17, 2023 admin

by Macy Osborne-Frazier Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Isolating protein from cells allows a […]

Yeast-Two-Hybrid

Techniques

October 27, 2023 admin

By Chelsea Smith Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Yeast-two-hybrid screens are used to determine […]

Viral Growth Curves

Techniques

October 27, 2023 admin

by Margaret Dedloff Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 Viral growth curves allow scientists to observe how a virus grows […]

Mouse Handling and Restraint

Techniques

September 25, 2023December 4, 2023 admin

by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: Mouse Handling and Restraint Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? […]

Histology

Techniques

July 23, 2023 admin

by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: Histology Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists use histology […]

Culturing Human Brain Organoids

Techniques

May 19, 2023 admin

By Brandon Le Technique Name: Culturing human brain organoids Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 5/5 What is the general purpose? […]

DNA Extraction

Techniques

April 10, 2023 admin

by Mariah Jones Technique Name: DNA Extraction Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? The goal […]

Lineage Tracing

Techniques

March 31, 2023 admin

by Danica Dy Technique Name: Lineage Tracing Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 5/5 What is the general purpose? Genes provide […]

Crystal Violet Biofilm Assay

Techniques

March 24, 2023 admin

by Leslie Kent Technique Name: Crystal Violet Biofilm Assay Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? […]

Focus Forming Assay

Techniques

March 9, 2023 admin

by Margaret Dedloff Technique name: Focus Forming Assay Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Unlike […]

Plaque Assay

Techniques

March 9, 2023 admin

by Margaret Dedloff Technique name: Plaque Assay Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? When growing […]

Cytotoxicity Assay

Techniques

December 19, 2022 admin

by Margaret Dedloff Technique name: Cytotoxicity assay or lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release assay Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What […]

Next Generation Sequencing

Techniques

December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 admin

by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: Next Generation Sequencing Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists […]

Sanger Sequencing: Reading our DNA

Techniques

November 18, 2022 admin

by Seth Veenbaas Technique name: Sanger sequencing Fun rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 General purpose: Sanger sequencing, and other DNA […]

RNA Extraction

Techniques

November 18, 2022November 21, 2022 admin

by Yasemin Cole Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? To separate one of the smallest […]

TUNEL Staining

Techniques

November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 admin

by Megan (Frederick) Amason Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 Technique name: TUNEL Staining (TUNEL = terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP […]