...successfully takes up plasmid DNA. Among those that do, some now have plasmids that contain your gene of...you’re seeking. Fortunately, there are many ways to do this involving positive selection, negative selection...cells that contain a specific gene survive. The rest do not grow. While there are many ways to design your...

...continue reading for more details. How much time do you spend reading scientific literature? Very often...’t save you the hard work of reading papers and doing experiments but we can definitely give you credit...envisions a world where the impact of teaching and doing science is rapid, concrete and open to innovation...

...stability Figure 1: So many choices! What to do? The main factors that can affect DNA stability...stability of your DNA, it will limit what you can do with these samples. This is because divalent cations...than water in these conditions.  The next time you do a plasmid prep, plan in detail before you drop that...

...researchers are communicating across disciplines or doing different tasks. But these challenges can be exaggerated... with each other in person. One possibility is to do a lab exchange, where researchers spent time in each...cohort, neither of which I would have been able to do from my home lab. Scientific conferences and workshops...

...compelling, and I encourage you to hold one. Why do we need physical models of protein structure? Structural... you can only wonder what I am talking about. How do researchers use physical models of protein structure...and dangerous. Subscribe to CRISPR Blog Posts How do educators and students use molecular models?   We...human body?” … and probably most importantly… "how do we know this?” Over the past fifteen years, the CBM...

...Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker Do you have a difficult supervisor, or do you have to work with difficult...problem and leave your emotions out of the discussion Do not assume that your supervisor is familiar with ...ideas, but he or she probably has reasons for it. Do not take criticism personally or get defensive. Look...

...’t truly address the question of what I wanted to do when I grew up until I was all but finished my undergraduate...curiosity did not ultimately translate to a desire to do the research itself. Several years of exclusively...audience and how to utilize a wide array of media in doing so—can prove invaluable in the pursuit of public...

...transition state or specific configuration. So how do you ensure that you have the right antibody for the...configuration in your assay. Did you have a denaturing step? Do you want to capture the protein bound to anything...elucidate information about what a given protein is doing or changing in different conditions. Just remember...

...primary antibody controls in your experiments. If you do find high levels of background staining by the secondary...binding Direct immunohistochemistry (Figure 2A)  How do you avoid having your secondary antibody bind endogenous...common solutions to avoid background staining when doing species on species IHC. (A) One solution is to use...

...2016; Torres & Casadevall, 2008) but…does it really do anything? Fc functions The answer is, yes, it does...Fc effector functions and all that antibodies can do! For instance, some Fc receptors, once bound to an...structure and isotype determination, remember that it can do so much more than that!    References and resources...