By popular demand: edible electrophoresis!

As you should remember, agarose gel electrophoresis is a technique that uses electricity and a porous gel matrix to separate DNA (and other molecules) into discreet bands based on size, shape, or charge. The agarose gel used to separate the…

Understanding Bias in Forensic Science

Forensic science is the use of the scientific method and interdisciplinary scientific techniques to investigate crimes, identify and examine crime scenes, and present evidence in a criminal trial. Stories of early forensic investigations can be found as far back as…

Data analysis: Collecting and analyzing experimental results

We're back with another article about data analysis! For our previous blog post: Data analysis: range, mean, median, and mode Now, as we remember, data is only as good as the measurements made to collect them! When making measurements, it is…