Radiolabeling nucleic acids (RNA & DNA) might seem “old school” but it remains an incredibly useful tool! So if someone […]

With general proteases, there’s a time and a place! Normally, I try to keep these “protein scissors” FAAAAAR away from […]

Let there not be light! If you don’t see fluorescence you might be FRET-ing (and lots of information getting!) Fluorophores […]

Learning to read DNA! You’re probably familiar with the DNA double helix (thanks Rosalind Franklin!) That helix is 2 complementary […]

Give me a P! P! Give me a C! C! Give me an R! R! What do yo get? Lots […]

I reached a milestone, or I guess you could say a mile-PAGE today – my 700th SDS-PAGE since I started […]

Trying to express a protein in bacteria and it isn’t going well? Maybe you should try expression in an insect […]

#GetYourFluShot! We don’t have a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine yet, but we do have an influenza vaccine, which can play a crucial […]

Virologist Theodora Hatziioanno “broke the species barrier” and became the first person to develop a non-human or chimp AIDS model […]

It’s the great squash Charlie Brown! Doesn’t have quite the same ring, but it’s the more accurate description of this […]