Can you believe it? We're already at the end of our summer vacation. I'm sure that you are busy getting your classroom ready for the first day of school. We've had a really busy summer as well, designing new experiments…
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Biotechnology Basics: Bacterial Transformation
What is transformation? In nature, some species of bacteria can acquire exogenous DNA from the surrounding environment through a process called transformation. The newly acquired genetic information is both stable and heritable. In the laboratory, scientists can force bacteria like…
The importance of keeping a laboratory notebook
In the research laboratories, a scientist’s notebook represents a comprehensive record of the experiments that were performed, why an experiment was performed, and what the results mean. First, the lab notebook is used to design their experiments. As the experiment…
