by Erin Dickert Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Amplicon sequencing is a molecular biology […]
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Morris water maze
by Wendy Sun Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? The purpose of the Morris water […]
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by Natalie Thomas Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Proliferation is a measurement of how […]
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by Hannah Thrash Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Scientists use migration assays to watch […]
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by Natalie Thomas Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 5/5 What is the general purpose? Mouse models are used worldwide to […]
Continue readingGenetically-engineered embryos: germline editing and the ethical considerations behind this hot topic
by Julia Riley The introduction of gene therapies have revolutionized the way we think about illness, cancer, and even aging. […]
Continue readingCRISPR: A New and Emerging Gene Editing Technique
by Ellissa DeFeyter Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? CRISPR (Clustered Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) […]
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by Claire Greene Whitfield Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Lentiviral transduction is a technique […]
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(Noun. /OR-guh-noid) by Yasemin Cole What does it mean? An organoid is a miniature, simplified, and specialized version of an […]
Continue readingPreparing Solid Media Plates
by Karly Forker Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 1/5 What is the general purpose? Solid media plates provide a nutrient-dense […]
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by Anicka AbiChedid Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is a […]
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by Jamie Liu Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? In nature, various species of bacteria […]
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by Marco Gontijo Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? A macrophage invasion and survival assay […]
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by Jessica Zhang Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Neuronal tracing allows neuroscientists to identify […]
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by Karly Forker Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? Size exclusion chromatography is a technique […]
Continue readingAntimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (Microdilution Technique)
by Marco Gontijo Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 1/5 What is the general purpose? Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when organisms, […]
Continue readingEndogenous Co-Immunoprecipitation Assay
by Hannah Thrash Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Endogenous co-immunoprecipitation is a mouthful to […]
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(noun. puh·thaa·luh·jee) by Anna Goddard What does it mean? Pathology is the study of disease, including the exploration of its […]
Continue readingCellular Fractionation
by Caroline Aufgebauer Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? Cellular fractionation is a technique used […]
Continue readingRNA Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (RIP-seq)
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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