This week, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the discovery of one of the hottest biotechnology tools out there - CRISPR! This marks the first…
This week, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the discovery of one of the hottest biotechnology tools out there - CRISPR! This marks the first…
This is a guest post from our colleagues at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Biochemistry and molecular biology (BMB) have emerged as a distinctive scientific discipline that deals with the chemistry of living organisms and life at…
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This is a guest post from Dr. Brian Cohen, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at Union College. Find him on Twitter @profbdcohen. The cholesterol oxidase assay, part of kit 316- “In Search of the Cholesterol Gene” seemed…
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Food allergies have become a growing concern worldwide, as there has been a large increase in the number of both children and adults in the last few decades that are being affected by this immune system condition. The National Institute…
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