The Recipe for Plants: Strategies for Cell Culture Media Preparation
All plants require nutrients to grow. In addition to oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water, plants req…
How Blue Jeans Became Blue
Blue jeans have an inseparable one-way word association, and what makes that so interesting is tha…
Influenza Season
Each year the flu kills 36,000 people and hospitalizes 200,000 more in the United States. All in al…
10 Steps to a more Effective Scientific Presentation
If you find yourself stressed or nervous about an upcoming research presentation, you are not alone….
Guide to Writing the Results and Discussion Sections of a Scientific Article
A good research paper has both qualities of good studies and good writing (Bordage, 2001). In additi…
What causes some pregnancies to result in Preeclampsia?
Since the early 1990’s, there has been an explosion of research and discovery around the problem of…
Deep Dive Into Plant Transformation Protocols: Protoplast-Mediated, Biolistic-Mediated and Agrobacterium-Mediated Gene Transfer
Publishing Failure in Science
I was sitting at a typical conference room table at a biomedical startup interviewing for an interns…
Reducing Agents (Part 4 of 4) – TCEP-HCl (Tris-(carboxyethyl) phosphine hydrochloride)
Previously, we’ve been discussing the function of various reducing agents. There are a number of red…
Top 5 Electronic Lab Notebooks for Academic and Personal Use
If you’ve decided to try out the electronic lab notebook and don’t know where to start, this artic…
Visualizing Data – Quick Tips for your Publication
Why should data be visually presented?We as people are visual in nature, and presenting data in vis…
Amphotericin B – the Anti-Resistant Antifungal
Antibiotic resistance is certainly more of a rule than a question and one which I have discussed sev…
The Top Scientific Discoveries and Breakthroughs of 2018
Often, on the eve of a new year, we feel the need to reflect upon our accomplishments and progress o…
Blue-White Screening
For today’s blog post, we’re going to shine a spotlight on a widely used technique in the field of…
Demystifying Material Grades for Your Laboratory
Whether it’s in a chemical’s title or its description, there is usually a note about a reagent’s g…
Bacterial Gene Manipulation by Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)
Genetic manipulation of bacteria, or “genetically engineering” bacteria, involves deletion of its ge…
How to Choose a GoldBio DNA Ladder
Without a DNA ladder, it wouldn’t be possible to accurately analyze your DNA samples. DNA ladders co…
Abiotic Stress On Auxin Levels – What’s Cold Got To Do With It?
The growth and development of plants are governed by the induction, suppression or transmission of p…
Breaking Through with CRISPR
Every so often, observation, creativity, collaboration and a little bit of luck lead to a scientific…
Why High Transformation Efficiency for Agrobacterium Competent Cells is Crucial
You may agree that a good last name for Agrobacterium is not necessarily tumefaciens but “effici…
His-Tag Metal Affinity Cations: What’s the difference again?
Unless you’ve done the equivalent of a post-doc on his-tag protein purification, you have probably a…
Revisión y Aplicaciones de la Transcriptasa Inversa y ADNc
La transcripción inversa o reversa es una técnica utilizada por los investigadores para generar una…