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This is a guest post from Ms. Eleanor Blanchard, a science teacher at Walnut High School, CA. Follow her on Instagram. Teaching college level skills to my high school students is something I set out to do every school year. There’s…
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Playful, mischievous, lovable, or lazy, canine personalities seem to span a spectrum as broad as found in humans. Indeed, one of the first questions that every potential dog owner asks is how a specific breed’s quirks will fit into what…
So you’ve selected your plasmid and restriction enzymes, carried out a bunch of digestion reactions, and successfully run and stained a beautiful electrophoresis gel. But now how do you go from this? To this? The answer is by mapping! Restriction…
In our last installment about chromosomes, we discussed mitosis, the key process that maintains the proper chromosome number in somatic cells. But what happens when organisms want to reproduce? In organisms that reproduce sexually, or through the combination of genetic…
Each day for Teacher Appreciation Week we have been running a flash giveaway! On our first day, we ran a “Favorite Science Meme” competition. To get in the spirit, we at Edvotek created a few ourselves! We had a lot…
Read More Our favorite science memes for Teacher Appreciation Week!
This year, Teacher Appreciation Week (one of our favorite weeks of the year!) kicked off on May 2nd and runs through Friday, May 6th. To celebrate all educators, we’ll be running flash giveaways of some of our best-selling kits daily…
Biotechnology Breakthroughs: Messenger RNA Vaccines for Covid-19
Explore the biology behind mRNA vaccines and break down the initial Pfizer and Moderna clinical data.