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Each year on April 22, the international community comes together to celebrate environmental protection in an event called "Earth Day". During this celebration of our planet, researchers communicate about innovations in environmental science and green technologies. Now, many people may…
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Agarose gel electrophoresis is an essential biotechnology technique used in research, clinical, and teaching labs across the world every day. Electrophoresis uses electricity and a porous gel matrix to separate different molecules – dyes, nucleic acid, proteins – into discrete…
It all started with an observation. Joe Dorgan, a dairy farmer living on Canada’s Prince Edward Island, noticed that the cows he let graze near the ocean produced more milk than those he kept in land-locked pastures. He thought that…
In humans, plants, and animals, infectious agents can spread from individual to individual, causing sickness. Even bacteria are not immune from infection; small viruses called bacteriophage seek out and attack bacteria, infecting them and using the bacterial cell machinery to…
