Four cool science articles that AREN’T about coronavirus

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!  We know you are working harder than ever to deliver quality content to your students, either remotely or in person.  All week, all orders will come with an Edvotek Lab Pack: hot glove, solutions magnet, DNA…

Five Ways to Improve Your Transformation Experiments

Transformation is the process through which bacteria can pick up foreign DNA from the surrounding environment. The newly acquired genetic information is both stable and heritable. In the laboratory, we can transform bacteria with small, circular pieces of DNA called…

Why is C. elegans so popular in the biology laboratory? 

For centuries, scientists have used model organisms from the three domains of life, bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, to understand biological functions. For example, the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli), which has been studied for more than 60 years, has provided important…

Focus on Food Science for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving in the United States is rapidly approaching, and the magnificent feast ahead of us has me thinking about all the delicious seasonal treats I will eat… and food science.  Why food science?  Because scientific advances influenced what we eat…