Death of a Salesman – How Proteinase K Unlocked the Secret in a Criminal Case
The traveling salesman, 45 and otherwise healthy, had been hospitalized several times already. This is based on a real homicide case. The traveling salesman,...
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Left Out in the Lab: What Reagents Survive Ambient Temperatures?
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....
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Unconventional Uses of Microbes: How Bacteria Becomes Art
You don’t usually hear the word “beautiful” when discussing bacteria, but a trend among microbiologists has turned microbes into aesthetic wonders. A number of projects...
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Buffers Through Time: How Buffers Progress Alongside Research
Buffers are a class of solution-stabilizing molecules which existed long before contemporary lab technology. Natural buffer substances like bicarbonate and carbonic acid are manufactured by...
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“Pipette, Cry, Repeat” - Advice on Material/Technical Errors in Polymerase Chain Reaction
When you’ve conducted the same reaction a dozen times and the problem is still elusive, it’s easy to get frustrated. Simple mistakes can turn a...
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The Microbiome of the Litter Box, Cats and Human Health
Our increasing awareness of the human microbiome has promoted research on bacteria, fungi, pathogens and other microbes which coexist around and within our bodies. These...
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Sharing with your pets: zoonotic disease and anti-microbial medicines
We normally wouldn’t consider our own pets as risks to our health. When parasites become involved, however, we must take some precautions around the animals...
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Ancient Family Reunion: PCR Reunites Humans to Ancestors
America’s inhabitation by humans is a discussion among archaeologists with new, compelling and contradictory data discovered each year. New methods of research and sources of...
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Better than Baking Soda: Defining the Essentials of Desiccation
Every lab has unique procedures when caring for their biochemical materials, but most teams operate on similar fundamentals. These practical methods are shared among colleagues...
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A World in Which Papercuts Can Kill
The overuse of antibiotics has been debated in the biochemical and medical fields for decades, concern peaking in the last ten years as previously effective...
