Tag: laboratory

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 […]

Odessa Goudy

Scientist Spotlights

February 24, 2023 admin

By Mikayla Feldbauer This interview was conducted in Fall 2022. On the date of publication, Odessa Goudy had just earned […]

Metabolomics

Glossary

December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 admin

(noun. /me-ta-buh-LO-miks/) by Yasemin Cole What does it mean? The study of all the global small molecules (also called metabolites) […]

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 […]

Lysis

Glossary

November 10, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

(noun. /LIE-sihs/) by Nicole Gadda What does it mean? Lysis is the process in which cells burst open and their […]

Digest and Ligation of DNA

Techniques

June 30, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

by Rami Major Technique Name: Restriction Digest and Ligation Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? […]

Metaphase Spreads

Techniques

May 5, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

by Deepika Jayaprakash Technique Name: Metaphase spreads Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 This technique is invaluable for clinical diagnosis and […]

Isolation Streaking

Techniques

April 29, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

by Nicole Gadda Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 1/5 Isolation streaking gets a 1 out of 5 on the difficulty […]

IHC

Techniques

April 14, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: Immunohistochemistry, abbreviated IHC Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? The […]

Mapping Genetic Recombination

Techniques

April 8, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

by Nila Pazhayam Technique Name: Mapping genetic recombination during meiosis Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 3/5 Intro: There are two […]

Counting Viable Cells

Techniques

April 4, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

by Catalina Cobos-Uribe Technique Name: Cell counting Fun Rating: 3/5 This technique, although extremely important when carrying out cell experiments, […]

In vitro

Glossary

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 admin

(Adjective. /in VEE-troh/) by Anna Wheless What does it mean? The term “in vitro” describes a biological experiment or process […]

Measuring Optical Density

Techniques

April 1, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

By Nathan Seals Fun rating: 5/5 Difficulty rating: 1/5 Why do we use it? Optical density measurements are used to […]

Kirby-Bauer Test

Techniques

March 18, 2022November 10, 2022 admin

By Megan Frederick Technique Name: Antibiotic Susceptibility Test (AKA Kirby-Bauer Test) Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the […]

FISH

Techniques

December 3, 2021November 10, 2022 admin

by Nicole Gadda Technique Name: Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Fun rating: 4/5 Personally, I love anything that is fluorescent […]

ChIP-ChIP, Hooray!

Techniques

November 29, 2021November 10, 2022 admin

by Riya Gohil Technique Name: Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (ChIP-seq) Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Chromatin […]