(noun. /NOO-klee-o-tide/) by Whitney Bell What does it mean? Nucleotides are the basic structural units of a nucleic acid, like […]
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Oncogenes: Driving life in fast forward mode
by Deepika Jayaprakash One major cause of human cancer development is the activation of certain genes known as proto-oncogenes. Proto-oncogenes […]
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Mapping Genetic Recombination
by Nila Pazhayam Technique Name: Mapping genetic recombination during meiosis Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 Intro: There are two […]
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Sickle Cell Anemia: How A Spelling Error Can Cause Disease
by Yasemin Cole When it comes to life, spelling is very important. In our day to day life, we take […]
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FISH
by Nicole Gadda Technique Name: Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Fun rating: 4/5 Personally, I love anything that is fluorescent […]
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ChIP-ChIP, Hooray!
by Riya Gohil Technique Name: Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (ChIP-seq) Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Chromatin […]
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qRT-PCR
by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: qRT-PCR (quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction) Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 2/5 Purpose: In molecular […]
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Histone
(Noun. /HISS-tone/) by Gabrielle Quickstad What does it mean? Histones are important proteins that enable the packaging of DNA into […]
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The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology
By Riya Gohil The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology One of my favorite analogies of learning is the expanding circle […]
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Enhancer
By Riya Gohil (noun. /in-HAN-ser/) What does it mean? An enhancer is a segment of DNA that increases the transcription […]
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Microarrays
by Mohamed Nasr Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? A microarray’s general purpose is to […]
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Genome
by Yasemin Cole (Noun. /JEE-nohm/) What does it mean? A genome is an entire set of genetic instructions in each […]
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Telomere
By Rami Major Telomere (noun. /TEE-luh-mere/) What does it mean? Our DNA is packaged and tightly wrapped up in chromosomes. […]
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Nucleosome
By Riya Gohil (Noun. /NEW-klee-uh-sohm/) What does it mean? A nucleosome is a unit of eight proteins (called histones) that […]
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Cloning: Turning Sci-Fi Movies into Reality
By Mohamed Nasr Have you ever wondered what could happen if there were several exact copies of yourself? What would […]
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Chromosomal Crossover
By Mohamed Nasr (noun. /kro-mo-SO-muhl KROSS-over/) What does it mean? Chromosomal crossover, also known as “crossing over”, is the process […]
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Gel 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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Commercial DNA Testing Kits: Worth the Price?
By Rami Major Commercial DNA testing kits are becoming increasingly more popular. Although they can be fun windows into our […]
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The Human Genome Project: More Questions than Answers
By Laetitia Meyrueix The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an amazing endeavor to map the full human genome. A genome […]
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CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing of Humans – Future or Fiction?
By Dominika Trzilova You’re half of your mom and half of your dad. You get different characteristics from each parent, many […]
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