Every two years, the world gathers around their television sets to watch the Olympic Games. Elite athletes from around the world come together in a new host city to compete against one another in either Winter or Summer sports. Right…
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Biotech Basics: Pipetting
What are pipettes? Pipettes are a large group of laboratory tools that scientists use to measure and manipulate liquids. The simplest pipettes closely resemble eye droppers with squeezable bulbs. These are known as Pasteur pipettes after their inventor Louis Pasteur.…
EdvoTech Tips: How does a standard curve work?
Agarose gel electrophoresis uses electricity and a porous gel matrix to separate mixtures of DNA molecules into discrete bands based on their size. As the current is running, the DNA molecules move through the pores in the gel. Since it’s…
The Agar Art Contest: Science as Art
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…
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