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On Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram I’m taking walking people through some of the biochemistry work I do, as well as fundamental biochemistry concepts using #365DaysofScience and I’ll be re-posting some of the posts here. (You can find links to all of my past posts here: http://bit.ly/2OllAB0). Feel free to ask questions and call me out if I slip into jargon!
Here are some of my latest posts:
- Biochemistry word parts: prefixes, suffixes, roots (with examples) to help figure out terms
- Choosing an experimental system – in vitro, in cell culture, in vivo, etc.
- Fundamentals of clinical trials and the path to regulatory approval of a therapeutic
- Some articles relating to gene therapy and gene editing for sickle cell disease and related disorders
- Assessing the quality of a structural model through PDB validation reports and quality measures
- Advice for aspiring scientists – how to stand out and set yourself up for the long haul
- ORCiD IDs: What those green “iD” circles are all about and why you should get one & check them out!
- Scientific research posters – what they are & advice for preparing and presenting them
- Batch binding with gravity flow chromatography
- Types of scientific papers: What’s what and how to know
- Conservation of protein sequences: “conserved” vs. “conservative” (substitutions)
- Bespoke . . . synthesis, treatments, assays, etc.
- Translational readthrough of PTCs (premature termination codons), suppressor tRNAs (sup-tRNAs), and PERT
- Orthogonal methods/techniques
- Mass Photometry
- Off-target and on-target activity & effects
- Be legendary! Scientific figures & legends, a practical guide
- Unintentional error: Avoiding common experimental artifacts (especially batch & positional effects)
- Techniques for buffer exchange (Desalting columns, Dialysis, & Diafiltration): Pros, cons, & going-ons
- Demystifying (and de-mythifying) grad school – things to know about what it is and isn’t
- Scientific writing is an iterative, often collaborative and back-and-forth, process – here’s some advice
- ResolutIon in protein chromatography – what it is & how to get it: selectivity & efficiency
