by Caroline Aufgebauer Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Ribonucleic acid (RNA) Immunoprecipitation Sequencing, or […]
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Dr. Luciana Bachega
By Brianna Almeida Dr. Luciana Bachega is a postdoctoral associate (postdoc) from Brazil in the Hawkes lab at North Carolina […]
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Nature’s Light Show: The Discovery and Application of Green Fluorescent Protein
by Aili Hao Nature is full of glowing creatures like fireflies and jellyfish. This ability to produce light is known […]
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Protein Purification
by Luca Montore Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Protein purification is a technique that […]
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Gel Electrophoresis
by Brianna Almeida Fun Rating: 2/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? The purpose of gel electrophoresis is […]
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cDNA
(noun. ˈsē-ˌdē-(ˌ)en-ˈā) by Anna Goddard What does it mean? cDNA, also known as copy DNA or complementary DNA, is a […]
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Spatial Transcriptomics
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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Antibiotic kill curves
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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siRNA Knockdown
by Chelsea Smith Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is often […]
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Cytometry 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 […]
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Primary cell culture
by Abby Poff Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Primary cell culture is an in […]
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Calculating 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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Gibson Assembly
by Olivia Conway Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Although the genetic engineering we read […]
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Micro 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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Immunofluorescence
(noun. /im-yuh-noh-floor-ESS-uhns/) by Anna Goddard What does it mean? A technique used to determine where a protein or antibody is […]
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Fluorescent transcriptional reporters
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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Microsome
(noun. /my-cro-SOME/) by Raeanne Geffert What does it mean? A microsome is a fraction of a cell that contains some […]
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HeLa Cells: The Woman Who Changed Science Forever, But Never Knew
by Chelsea Smith Who is HeLa? Deborah Lacks was shocked when she found out that there were thousands, or more […]
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Isolating 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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