by Yasemin Cole Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? To separate one of the smallest […]
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Lysis
(noun. /LIE-sihs/) by Nicole Gadda What does it mean? Lysis is the process in which cells burst open and their […]
Continue readingDigest and Ligation of DNA
by Rami Major Technique Name: Restriction Digest and Ligation Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? […]
Continue readingMetaphase Spreads
by Deepika Jayaprakash Technique Name: Metaphase spreads Fun Rating: 4/5 Difficulty Rating: 4/5 This technique is invaluable for clinical diagnosis and […]
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by Nicole Gadda Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty Rating: 1/5 Isolation streaking gets a 1 out of 5 on the difficulty […]
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by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: Immunohistochemistry, abbreviated IHC Fun Rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? The […]
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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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by Catalina Cobos-Uribe Technique Name: Cell counting Fun Rating: 3/5 This technique, although extremely important when carrying out cell experiments, […]
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(Adjective. /in VEE-troh/) by Anna Wheless What does it mean? The term “in vitro” describes a biological experiment or process […]
Continue readingMeasuring Optical Density
By Nathan Seals Fun rating: 5/5 Difficulty rating: 1/5 Why do we use it? Optical density measurements are used to […]
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By Megan Frederick Technique Name: Antibiotic Susceptibility Test (AKA Kirby-Bauer Test) Fun Rating: 5/5 Difficulty Rating: 2/5 What is the […]
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by Nicole Gadda Technique Name: Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Fun rating: 4/5 Personally, I love anything that is fluorescent […]
Continue readingChIP-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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by Yasemin Cole Technique Name: qRT-PCR (quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction) Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 2/5 Purpose: In molecular […]
Continue readingRandomized Control Trial
by Alec Chavez What does it mean? A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is an experimental design in which the scientists […]
Continue readingThe Lab Notebook
By Regina Fernandez Fun rating: 2/5 Difficulty rating: 3/5 What is the general purpose? The purpose of a laboratory notebook […]
Continue readingMass 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 […]
Continue readingMicroarrays
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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By Regina Fernandez Fun rating: 4/5 Difficulty rating: 2/5 What is a lipid? Lipids are organic hydrophobic molecules that do […]
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