What Crows Truly Know
Have you ever heard an old hunter’s tale about counting crows? The story is about three hunters waiting in a hiding place near a murder...
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Avoiding Procrastination in Graduate School
Looming in a few months is your thesis deadline. In the hallway, your professor hunts you down, and asks for the first draft of your...
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A Deep Overview of Bioluminescence Imaging (BLI)
Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) has become an important research tool for understanding biological processes in vivo and in real-time. Some of the immediate benefits of bioluminescence...
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The Importance of Kinetic Curves in Bioluminescence Imaging
Many factors affect light emission in bioluminescence imaging (BLI), which is why creating a kinetic curve is so important for experimental accuracy and reproducibility. But...
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Understanding Competent Cells for Bacterial Transformation
Transformation is a common method in molecular biology with many applications, including cloning, DNA sequencing, and DNA library construction. To perform transformation, you must use...
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How Predatory Bacteria Could Help Us Defeat Harmful Bacteria
Multidrug resistant bacteria are a serious threat to public health worldwide due to the lack of new antibiotic drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. According...
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A Quick Overview of SOC Medium & Competent Cell Recovery Medium
This article offers a quick introduction about super optimal broth with catabolite repression or SOC medium (competent cell recovery medium), the reason to use of...
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How Different Luciferin-Luciferase Systems Are Used In Biotechnology
resently, bioluminescence remains a source of inspiration and mysticism, but within biotechnology, bioluminescence is a powerful tool. In this article, we briefly examine different bioluminescent...
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Why Using a Luciferase Assay Kit Safeguards your Research
With limited funding, researchers often find themselves doing more in the laboratory than necessary, making their own buffers, stock solutions and assays. However, there is...
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The History of Luciferin and Luciferase
Who discovered luciferin? The history of unraveling the chemical reaction behind bioluminescence starts in the ancient times and requires science and information gathering to evolve...
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Luciferase-based Reporter Assay Troubleshooting Guide
The luciferase-based reporter assay is one of the most commonly used tools in molecular biology to study gene regulation by a protein of interest on...
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Colorful Life under the Sea from Bioluminescence to Ultra Black
Oceans and seas covers most of the Earth’s surface, performing many important functions for our planet, such as regulating our climate and weather. Our oceans...
