Today, the devastating effects of rising man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, more technically called anthropogenic CO2emissions, are becoming increasingly evident in our beautiful blue ocean waters in the form of ocean acidification. Fortunately, the mangrove,...

You may have seen him perched up on tree branches, showing off his bright, red, feathery chest. The male Northern Cardinal, distinguished by his bright red feathers, has fascinated many birdwatchers and scientists alike. And, according to legend, if you see a cardinal...

Sandra’s haunting journey with a deadly flesh-eating parasite started a few years ago while Sandra was enjoying her last day of vacation at a tropical paradise. That day, Sandra decided to walk through the sandy beach one last time. Just as she was about to return to...

It’s no secret that animal parts are a big part of the black market trade in our world. Elephants, rhinos, tigers, pangolins and many more animals are routinely targeted, killed and butchered mercilessly and dispassionately without any regard to their preservation or...

Leaving your things lying around is something parents have lectured about forever, but the rule of tidiness is even more important in a laboratory setting. Biochemical products are a bit more volatile than dirty laundry, so it's important to have all of your chemicals...

It’s summer time again! The temperature has hit “beautiful”, the trees and grass have turned back to their vibrant shades of green, and the birds have begun their annual serenades. Ah, sweet wonderful summer. Except that we’re all stuck in the same old labs staring at...

For a few millennia, mankind has used honey as food and a healing agent without knowing how it worked. But, through experimentation, scientists have discovered that honey is a very complex substance. And today, we know that some of the components of honey that helps...

The traveling salesman, 45 and otherwise healthy, had been hospitalized several times already.Based on a real homicide case. The traveling salesman, 45 and otherwise healthy, had been hospitalized several times already. He complained of fatigue and weight loss, a...

Making sure your experiment goes right is a top priority because it saves time, money and prevents the overall frustration of the job. In many DNA extraction protocols, the use of proteinase K is an important step because of its ability to digest harmful nucleases,...

You’re planning a birthday party, something amazing for someone amazing, and you want it to be memorable. So you hire a great DJ and book a swank venue, but you’re looking for one more thing to set it apart, and then it hits you – glow-in-the-dark food and beverages!...

Every day scientists in laboratories across the world sit at their desks and painstakingly design experiments in the hope of making a discovery that will change how we think about a biological process. Because biological processes such as enzymatic activity are...

Blue jeans have an inseparable one-way word association, and what makes that so interesting is that blue jeans start out yellow – well, sort of. When “jeans” are brought up with no other descriptor, the assumption is that a person is talking about comfortable blue...

I was sitting at a typical conference room table at a biomedical startup interviewing for an internship. Everything in the room felt sterile and unfamiliar – exciting but scary. Even for an internship, this was a big-girl job and one that paid well. My thoughts were...

Often, on the eve of a new year, we feel the need to reflect upon our accomplishments and progress of the past year. As 2018 is coming to an end, we have collected a list of the year’s most impactful scientific discoveries and breakthroughs. Water in MarsWe will begin...

Every so often, observation, creativity, collaboration and a little bit of luck lead to a scientific breakthrough with the potential of transforming whole scientific fields and ultimately, life as we know it.The popular genome editing tool CRISPR, short for clustered...

You, a scientist, often begin an experiment by testing a theory with the hope of making a contribution. And, every once in a while, one scientist makes a discovery so powerful that the newly gained knowledge is used across the world by researchers to engineer and...

A researcher’s ability to isolate and purify proteins is essential not only in protein characterization studies, but in biological research as a whole. Currently there are many different methods to achieve the isolation of a specific protein from a sample. One very...

GoldBio’s d-luciferin potassium and d-luciferin sodium are two of our most popular products. And because of that, it’s a product we get asked a bunch of questions about. In this article, I’ll address a lot of the questions geared toward working with luciferin in an in...

Firefly luciferin is commonly used as a bioluminescent reporter in everything from cancer research to food safety. This little substrate and its enzyme luciferase is the magic behind the glow of fireflies. Even though it wasn’t until 1963 that William D. McElroy...

DNA polymerase is an important and necessary reagent used every day in thousands of molecular biology laboratories around theworld. Aside from PCR, polymerases are used in a myriad of applications that require polymerases with specific abilities. There are many...

At GoldBio, we appreciate the lighter side of lab life. Whether it’s the quirky ties that a professor may wear, or the fact that the lab is just going to be messy at times and we all have to (temporarily) embrace it, our time spent in the lab should be as enjoyable as...

As I raked out fresh mulch into my garden bed last year admiring the rich cedar color that sculpted the area and highlighted brilliant flowers, the aesthetic was momentarily ruined by a fragment of plastic. I picked it out, threw it away and continued to rake only to...

Bradford, Chanticleer and other ornamental pear trees have got to go. While Chanticleer flowering Pear might have been tree of the year in 2005, cities are asking their residents to cut down their flowering pear trees. Some cities have offered a buyback program where...

Western blotting is a very common and powerful techniqueoften used worldwide to detect, characterize and quantify proteins. Althoughcommon, a Western blot is composed of multiple steps that require carefulconsideration and planning. First, a protein sample is...