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techniques, cell & molecular biology

Creative Emulsification
Sabrina Richards | Nov 1, 2012 | 8 min read
Enhancing data collection from emulsion PCR reactions: three case studies
Live-Action Networks
Ruth Williams | Oct 1, 2012 | 3 min read
Mass spec plus novel software equals dynamic views into the chemical lives of microbes.
Enter the Third Dimension
Amber Dance | Sep 1, 2012 | 10 min read
Cell culture goes 3-D with devices that better mimic in vivo conditions.
Dynamic Delivery
Ruth Williams | Jul 1, 2012 | 2 min read
Microscopic sponges made entirely of RNA enable efficient gene silencing.
Move Over, Mother Nature
Amber Dance | Jul 1, 2012 | 8 min read
Synthetic biologists harness software to design genes and networks.
3-D Printing
Kerry Grens | Jul 1, 2012 | 4 min read
Is printing out your own lab equipment, molecular models, and drug compounds the wave of the future?
Stem Cells from Corpses
Bob Grant | Jun 15, 2012 | 1 min read
Researchers pull viable cells from bodies that had been dead for more than 2 weeks.
Next Generation: The Brain Bot
Megan Scudellari | May 29, 2012 | 3 min read
A 30-year-old technique to record the electrical activity of neurons gets a robotic makeover.
Gene Signaling by Remote
Edyta Zielinska | May 7, 2012 | 1 min read
Nanoparticles in mice can be switched on to activate insulin production using a radio signal.
Identifying Diet-Treatable Diseases
Sabrina Richards | Apr 10, 2012 | 1 min read
Scientists test which mutations underlie metabolic diseases that may benefit from changes in diet.
Live and In Color
Sarah Webb, Knowable Magazine | Apr 1, 2012 | 7 min read
How to track RNA in living cells
Eyes on Cancer
Amber Dance | Apr 1, 2012 | 8 min read
Techniques for watching tumors do their thing
Delivering Silence
Sabrina Richards | Mar 1, 2012 | 2 min read
Using RNA viruses to silence genes could optimize tissue targeting while reducing toxicity.
Ovarian Stem Cells in Humans?
Sabrina Richards | Feb 27, 2012 | 4 min read
Adult human ovaries contain a population of stem cells capable of generating immature egg cells.
RNA Chases Its Tail
Sabrina Richards | Feb 2, 2012 | 3 min read
New research suggests that circular RNA transcripts are not as rare as previously thought.
It’s Easy Being Green
Richard P. Grant | Jan 1, 2012 | 2 min read
Now RNA can glow in the cell, as only proteins could in the past.
Top Ten Innovations 2011
The Scientist | Jan 1, 2012 | 10+ min read
Our list of the best and brightest products that 2011 had to offer the life scientist
Stem Cells: Old vs. New
Bob Grant | Dec 2, 2011 | 2 min read
A new study finds key differences between established and new human embryonic stem cell lines.
Next Generation: Microfluidics for the Dish
Kerry Grens | Oct 4, 2011 | 3 min read
A new device for directing fluids is designed to deliver chemical cues directly to petri dishes without disturbing cells.
Chinese Miracle Pig Cloned
Bob Grant | Sep 21, 2011 | 1 min read
Scientists have cloned a castrated male hog that survived for more than a month buried in the rubble after a massive 2008 earthquake in China.
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