Jane Richardson – crystallographer and ribbon diagram inventor
Jane Richardson invented the ribbon representation for protein structures. You know what I’m talking about even if you have no […]
Molecular cloning – a bumbling biochemist guide to getting DNA you want where you want
If you want to study a protein, you want to manipulate it as much as possible, so you want to […]
Agar vs agarose; agar plate baking
Welcome to the bumbling biochemist’s bacterial pancake bakery! One of my guilty pleasures in the lab is the smell of […]
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments. I’d always known the basic overview – hundreds of Black men with syphilis being withheld treatment […]
Amminoacidi!
Many thanks to Micol Bonetti for translating these figures into Italian! Micol is a medical student in her second year […]
Okazaki fragments & DNA replication
What is meant by “Okazaki fragment”? Is your pulse rising? It’s time for an exciting post – don’t worry if […]
Antibodies – production, types & uses in the lab
Is your protein present? How do you know? Perhaps by playing antibody “Where’s Waldo?” Whether in the body or in […]
Avery, MacCleod, & McCarty experiments – journal articles
Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty are seriously under-acknowledged… They figured out that genetic info’s in DNA and they describe it in […]
