Scientific writing is an iterative, often collaborative and back-and-forth, process – here’s some advice
Extra note for grad school students: One of the key things to know is that a lot more gets to […]
ResolutIon in protein chromatography – what it is & how to get it: selectivity & efficiency
If you want to know more, I recommend checking out Cytiva’s chromatography handbooks. More on HIC and optimizing it: https://www.cytivalifesciences.com/en/us/insights/optimizing-hydrophobic-interaction-chromatography […]
The future of structural biology is likely dynamic
Proteins don’t have “a” structure – they typically have many; because proteins don’t stay still! Conformational changes (shape-shifts) can come […]
Who’s who (position-wise) in academic science labs
Who’s who in a lab & what do they do? (way overgeneralized); (in academia mainly – makeups, precise roles & […]
Aptamers and a quick comparison of small nucleic acid tools/therapeutics
Small nucleic acid therapeutics/tools (sometimes referred to as oligonucleotide therapeutics) include aptamers; RNAi-acting small RNAs – microRNA (miRNA) and small interfering […]
Gene-related jargon: exons, introns, UTRs, pre-mRNA, mature mRNA, CDS (coding sequence), & cDNA
We often say we stick the “gene” for making a protein into cells to get them to make the protein […]
Interpreting AlphaFold predictions
On the right-hand side of the screen, you’ll see a green plot. This is graphically depicting the Predicted Aligned Error […]
What’s in a name? A lot! How to get the most info you can out of enzyme, molecule, & pathway names
Longer list of word parts to know: https://bit.ly/biochemistry_word_parts & https://bit.ly/biochemwordparts & https://youtu.be/i3EYjveeGl4 More on enzyme classes and EC numbers: https://bit.ly/ec_numbers […]
