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A Detailed Guide to your Postdoc Application-Plus Printable Companion Checklist
Applying for postdoc positions is an important process along your journey to academia. While ther...

10 Incredibly Useful Protocol Resources for Life Scientists
When doing research, using existing protocols and modifying them to suit your experiment can save...

Better than Baking Soda: Defining the Essentials of Desiccation
Every lab has unique procedures when caring for their biochemical materials, but most teams operate...

What is a BSE/TSE Certificate and Why Should You Care?
TSE Certificates (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy) come packaged with products that could...

The Postdoc’s Guide to Tenure-Track Positions
With tenure track positions being few and far between and thousands of applicants to each position...

A Crash Course on Luciferase Assays
All right, so you’re starting a new project that requires you to use the luciferase assay, and thi...

18 Questions About Getting Published During Grad School
Whether you’re already in graduate school or you’re an undergrad who will be joining a Ph.D. progr...

Top 10 GelRed Questions and Answers
Ethidium bromide (EtBr) has been the go-to product for nucleic acid staining; however, you’re prob...

A Deep Dive Into Induction with IPTG
IPTG induction is a longstanding technique in molecular biology. In this article, you’ll take a de...