Into the TC Hood

Though I haven't had deep experience with tissue culture, it is a very important part of our experimental setup. To culture the embryonic...

What the FACS?

Today we will be talking about fluorescence-activated cell sorting, better known as FACS. In previous posts I have talked about how qPCR...

Understanding Embryo Growth

Embryo's were a hot topic in science in recent years, and are a hot topic in our current political climate. Because of the moral...

Nerd Society

Today’s post is going to be a fun one! I would like to talk about lab politics. Most lab buildings are pretty large and can have several...

Breaking the Diffraction Limit

The human eye is limited: we can only see objects that are at least .1 millimeters wide. However, many of the cells that scientists work...

Gradients of Life

You might be wondering how scientists "guess" the small molecules that should be used on the cells to encourage specified...

ATRA to the rescue!

We created the cDNA from the RNA because cDNA is far more stable and can be processed by our analytical tools. The cDNA is checked for...

What is cDNA and qPCR?

We created the cDNA from the RNA because cDNA is far more stable and can be processed by our analytical tools. The cDNA is checked for...

The Data Collection Bit

To survive, each cell ha to express thousands of proteins to react to different stresses. These proteins are code for through RNA. When...

Stem Cell Power!

It is crazy to think about, but you were once a single cell. As time went on, that cell divided and turned into a full human being. But...