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Three Seriously Scary Superbugs 

Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most urgent public health problems. In 2019 an estimated 4.95 million people died from illnesses involving antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi. (In comparison that year 1.51 million individuals died from malaria and HIV/AIDS.) Resistance…

EdvoTech Tips: How to choose the correct DNA ladder

Gel electrophoresis is a powerful technique to separate biomolecules for further analysis. We've discussed agarose gel electrophoresis, for analyzing DNA or RNA, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), for analyzing proteins, previously on this blog. However, we often get questions about…

What’s in a Name? C. elegans Edition

The famed model organism Caenorhabditis elegans has quite a few feathers in its cap. It was the first multicellular organism to have its genome sequenced and the only organism to have its entire neuron wiring (connectome) mapped. Moreover, C. elegans research has…