What is a Biological Buffer and How to Choose the Best Buffer for Your Experiment
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...
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Illuminating Your Party Food
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...
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5 Important Proteinase K Protocol Tips
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...
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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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Behind Honey's Healing Power
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...
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7 Fun Things to Do in or out of the Lab This Summer
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...
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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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Deadly Diseases, Synthetic Biology, and IPTG
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...
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How the Northern Cardinal Gets So Red
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...
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Mangroves - The Buffering Superheroes of the Ocean
Today, the devastating effects of rising man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, more technically called anthropogenic CO2 emissions, are becoming increasingly evident in our beautiful blue...
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DNase: The History Behind The Name
What is it about a name that gives us that sense of solidity, structure and instant recognition that, as humans, we seem driven to possess?...
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Fireflies: From Ancient Legend to Modern Discoveries
nsects have an established history within folklore and mythology. Butterflies, bees, scarabs and other bugs have become symbolic markers of rebirth, purity, life and death....
