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The Importance of Not Getting Scooped - You Only Think You Have Time

“David, you do realize that she is in Boston and it is 12 p.m. there, don’t you? She is trying to...

What BSA (Bovine Serum Albumin) Should I Use – Your BSA Selection Guide

Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) comes in many forms, which is why people frequently post questions onli...

24 Real Lab Hacks from Researchers Like You

Life hacks are all over the Internet, but laboratory hacks are more difficult to find. After being...

10 Easy Tips to Finally Organize Your Laboratory Fridge/Freezer

It’s defrost day in the lab, and you think to yourself, “This might be the best day to organize my f...

Synthetic Biology Overview: Racing toward a New ‘New Age of Enlightenment’

For thousands of years, our species has invested its life in explaining observed phenomena, mainly...

Your Hypothesis May Soon be Elementary, Thanks to Watson

When I was a young research associate, having just recently started down a career of molecular biolo...

A New Frontier for DNA: The Molecule, Now Made Machine

Lifesaving, man-made “nano-bots,” something long imagined in fiction, are now being brought to lif...

Decoding the Circadian Clock

There is, I think, one thing that unifies nearly every species on Earth, a single constant that goes...

What causes some pregnancies to result in Preeclampsia?

Since the early 1990’s, there has been an explosion of research and discovery around the problem of...