Watching this video, I realize why I didn’t actually learn anything until I started graduate school. Curiosity was a sin in my primary school. The teacher taught and the pupils needed to listen. This is how classes should be run. This is what science is about! Tweet This Post
A multi-national team of researchers has identified genetic markers that predict educational attainment by pooling data from more than 125,000 individuals in the United States, Australia, and 13 western European countries. The study, which appears in the journal Science, was conducted by the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC), which includes researchers at NYU, Erasmus [...]
Last time we spoke about the Centre of the Cell, we were celebrating its first birthday European Biotech style. Two and a half years have since passed, and the blastocyte-shaped educational complex is now developing plans to create a second, nerve cell-shaped complex to provide extra space for live science shows, hands-on workshops, debates, films [...]
I’m not sure they are a significant threat to established electrophoresis companies, but they certainly seem to be budding scientists! Tweet This Post
If you’ve just started out in PCR, you may see strange things on your gel which you are having trouble identifying. Smears. Bands in your negative control. A myriad of bands in your positive control. The following video will help you identify common PCR problems which is a critical first step when trying to trouoble [...]
