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Agarose gel electrophoresis is one of the most common biotechnology experiments in high school and undergraduate teaching laboratories. Unfortunately, it also tends to require at least 45 minutes to perform... assuming that everything works exactly as it should, nobody makes…
Read More 5 Tips to Speed Up Your DNA Electrophoresis Experiments
The polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is a biotechnology technique where we create millions of copies of a specific DNA sequence in vitro. (For more about the basics of PCR, check out our past blog post. There is a lot…
Read More Resources for teaching the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
We love helping students experience biology, technology, and science first-hand through their own experimentation. We also known that lab time can be limited and that there are so many topics to cover! Incorporating primary literature is another engaging and close…
Photo by Dave Harwood on Pexels.com Science communication, or #scicomm, is the "practice of informing, educating, raising awareness of science-related topics, and increasing the sense of wonder about scientific discoveries and arguments." Scicomm can take many different forms that we…
