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Triple Bioluminescense – Luciferin, Coelenterazine and now Vargulin!
Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love.” by Bishop Reginald Heber Biolu...
Glowing Plants and Kickstarter- Where Science and Public Funding Meet
Earlier this month a very unique and very successful Kickstarter campaign wrapped up. If you haven’t...
First there was the iPod, then the iPhone, the iMac and the iPad…now featuring iGLuc!
If you’re anything like me (geek that I am), every new technological device tends to get your blood...
Choosing a Graduate Program
May is quickly coming to a close and the stresses of finals, presentations and papers are finally a...
EGF, EGFRs and their Role in Cancer
Ever since the beginning of our awareness of growth factors in the early 1960’s by Stanley Cohen and...
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs)
The Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) were first discovered and named by Marshall Urist in 1965 as...
FGF1 Subfamily (FGF1 and FGF2)
The FGF1 subfamily of Fibroblast Growth Factors was the first of the FGFs to be isolated and identif...
Cytokines and Colony Stimulating Factors
In the ever-evolving world of growth factors, the Cytokine class can potentially encompass nearly ev...
Introduction to Interleukins
The interleukin family of cytokines is one of the largest and most studied of all the growth factors...