By Regina Fernandez Fun rating: 2/5 Difficulty rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? The purpose of a laboratory notebook […]
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Mass Spectrometry
By Yasemin Cole Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Mass spectroscopy is a technique used […]
Continue readingNo Oxygen? No Problem: How to Work in an Anaerobic Chamber
By Nicole Gadda Anaerobic? What does that mean? The word anaerobic means “living, acting, or existing in the absence of […]
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by Mohamed Nasr Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? A microarray’s general purpose is to […]
Continue readingLipid Extraction
By Regina Fernandez Fun rating: 4/5 Difficulty rating: 2/5 What is a lipid? Lipids are organic hydrophobic molecules that do […]
Continue readingFlow Cytometry
By Carolina Herrera Fun rating: 4/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Flow cytometry is a technique used […]
Continue readingBradford Protein Assay
By Madison Williams Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? A Bradford Protein Assay detects protein […]
Continue readingBacterial Transformation
By Nicole Gadda Fun rating: 5/5 Transformations get a full 5/5 fun rating from me! The possibilities are truly endless when […]
Continue readingMammalian Cell Culture
By Whitney Bell Fun rating: 2/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 4/5 petri dishes depending on the day. Mammalian cell culturing can […]
Continue readingGram Staining
By Mohamed Nasr Fun rating: 5/5 Difficulty rating: 1/5 What is the general purpose? Gram staining is used to differentiate between […]
Continue readingWestern Blot
By Riya Gohil Fun rating: 4/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Western Blots utilize gel electrophoresis to separate protein […]
Continue readingThe Morris Water Maze
By Sean Gay Fun rating: 4/5 The actual experiment is easy to perform and generates loads of data. Difficulty rating: […]
Continue readingMIC Broth Dilution
By Jenna Beam This article will focus on broth dilution tests, however other tests (like the E-test) are also used to […]
Continue readingImmunofluorescence
By Natalie Nielsen Fun rating: 5/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? To visually label and detect proteins […]
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By Devina Thiono Technique name: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) Fun rating: 5/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 (high focus and concentration needed […]
Continue readingRadioactive Tracing in Metabolic Research
By Alec Chaves Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 As the name suggests, this technique requires the scientist to handle radioactive […]
Continue readingGel Electrophoresis
Welcome to our first installment of “Techniques”! With these posts about methods and tools, we hope to give you a […]
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