Buzzing with Science: How DNA Helps Us Spot the Queen Bee!

Have you ever wondered how honeybees know who’s the queen and who’s a worker bee? Let’s dive into the world of bees and learn how scientists use something called DNA methylation to tell the difference between these buzzing superstars! Meet…

Some Like It (Not Too) Hot: Understanding Heat and Enzyme Denaturation

Enzymes are the superheroes of the molecular world. They can catalyze reactions at rates many times faster than uncatalyzed reactions. They can be reused over and over again without being changed. (This means that a single enzyme molecule can have…

In the Spotlight: EcoRI, HindIII, and BamHI

Humans get all the credit for scientific discoveries perhaps because we're the ones with the capacity to think and act on our ideas. Enzymes, on the other hand, are just molecules that catalyze chemical reactions and don't have the same…

Edvotek’s Top 5 Biotech Stories of 2022

2022 was a big year for science from new views of the cosmos thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope to breakthroughs in cold fusion! For our last post of the year, we’re rounding up the big biotech discoveries and…