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This is a guest post from Dr. Geoff Hunt, Public Outreach Specialist at the American Society for Microbiology. You can find him on Twitter at @TheGeoffHunt. Microbiologists have been using agar petri dishes as artistic canvases for decades, so the…
DNA usually comes in the famed double helix shape. However, scientists have discovered DNA in other forms as well such as the G-quadruplex and i-motif. DNA was discovered by the Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher in 1869. Miescher extracted the molecule from the…
Chromatography methods are used to help us separate molecular mixtures based on their mobility. One of the most basic versions of chromatography is thin layer chromatography (TLC). TLC can be used to separate chemical compounds and mixtures, identify specific compounds,…
Synthetic biology, the science of redesigning an organism to accomplish a new activity or to possess a beneficial trait, has become an indispensable part of modern biotechnology. We've written before about the amazing synthetic biology projects that are already changing…
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