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  • Jul 26
    Project graveyards as guideposts

    I was inspired recently to think about old, dead projects as guideposts based on another idea: reasearch graveyards

  • Jul 18
    How I manage my notes

    I have spent a long time trying to find the right practice for taking notes, and I think I finally found a method that I like

  • Jun 20
    Cell Lysis

    Cell lysis is the scientist name for 'breaking open a cell'. Here I go over ways of breaking open cells.

  • May 9
    Growing neurons Overview

    This is the first in a series of blog posts about what it takes to grow neuronal cultures.

  • Apr 25
    Cryopreservation

    Saving cells for future use is extermely useful. In this post, I go over a basic cryopreservation technique

  • Apr 11
    MAP kinase

    MAP kinase comes up as a canonical example in much of systems biology, and I wanted to write a short post about what it actually is

  • Mar 29
    Immortal cell lines

    Immortal cell lines are immensely useful to research. They allow us to produce fully differentiated cells in high quantities.

  • Mar 7
    Building proteins

    One of the foundations of biology is proteins.

  • Feb 7
    Lac operon

    I have heard a lot about the lac operon, and had never looked into it. I've taken this opportunity to explain the basics of how it can be used to select for engineered organisms

  • Jan 31
    DNA methylation in prokaryotes

    DNA methylation has profound effects in genetics which are still being studied. Methylation affects synthetic biologists by digesting transferred DNA and introducing mutations to transferred DNA

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