Do you decorate your lab for the winter holidays? If yes, we want to see what you're doing. Starting today, and running until December 22 2021, we will be running our first "Deck the Lab" contest. The winner will receive…
Tag: Biotech Basics
We’re on TikTok! Follow Us Today @edvotek
Why TikTok? It's the perfect social media platform for us to have fun and showcase some science snippets with our short-form videos! We'll be covering trends, biotech techniques, moments in the lab, commonly asked questions, and more...and we'll be posting…
The Science of our Thanksgiving Meal
We're rapidly approaching the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, which can also be thought of as a festival of food. On our blog, we previously covered some of the food science behind Thanksgiving, and even discussed the science behind…
What is transformation efficiency and why is it important?
Transformation is highly inefficient—only one in every 10,000 cells successfully incorporates the plasmid DNA. However, since a billion cells are used in a transformation experiment, only a few cells must take up the plasmid to achieve a positive outcome. We can use the data from our experiment to calculate the transformation efficiency!
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