By Carolina Herrera Fun rating: 4/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Flow cytometry is a technique used […]
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Bradford Protein Assay
By Madison Williams Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 2/5 What is the general purpose? A Bradford Protein Assay detects protein […]
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By Riya Gohil Fun rating: 4/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? Western Blots utilize gel electrophoresis to separate protein […]
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By Sean Gay Fun rating: 4/5 The actual experiment is easy to perform and generates loads of data. Difficulty rating: […]
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By Katie Acken Lowe (Noun or verb. /pie-PET/) What does it mean? A pipette is a mechanical instrument used to […]
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By Jenna Beam This article will focus on broth dilution tests, however other tests (like the E-test) are also used to […]
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By Natalie Nielsen Fun rating: 5/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 What is the general purpose? To visually label and detect proteins […]
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Plural: hypotheses By Alan Curtis (singular noun. /hi-POTH-eh-sis/) (plural noun. /hi-POTH-eh-seas/) What does it mean? A statement that is one possible […]
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By Devina Thiono Technique name: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) Fun rating: 5/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 (high focus and concentration needed […]
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By Alec Chaves Fun rating: 3/5 Difficulty rating: 4/5 As the name suggests, this technique requires the scientist to handle radioactive […]
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Welcome to our first installment of “Techniques”! With these posts about methods and tools, we hope to give you a […]
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By Allyson Roberts While watching the news, reading the paper, or even checking your favorite social media sites, occasionally we […]
Continue readingHow to Copy DNA: The Invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction
By Matt Niederhuber There’s a good chance you’ve heard about DNA testing before, probably on a crime TV show or […]
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By Michelle Engle The phrases “laboratory animals”, “lab rats”, and even the idea of scientific testing on lab mice tend […]
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By Kelsey Gray I was 16 years old the first time I stepped into a research lab. I was in […]
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By Michelle Engle Scientists have been attempting to find a way to directly observe the developmental process of chicks for […]
Continue readingWhy Does the “Bench-To-Bedside” Path Progress So Slowly?
By Yitong Li One of the biggest funding agencies in the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends […]
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By Mike Pablo Today I’m writing about microscopy. One of the great pleasures of the field of microscopy is being […]
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