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General Tips for Successful Cell Culture

Culturing cells in the lab? Following these tips will add to your success and help you avoid wasted ...

Hallmarks of Cancer: Enabling Replicative Immortality

Cancer cells can revert to a pre-differentiated, stem-cell-like phenotype, allowing uninhibited cell...
Chris Sumner Apr 17, 2019

Hallmarks of Cancer: Sustaining Proliferative Signaling

Cancer cells stimulate their own growth, which means they become self-sufficient in growth signals a...
Chris Sumner Apr 3, 2019

Hypoxia & Cancer: The role of HIF-1α in Oxygen Sensing, Metabolism, and Tumorigenesis

Molecular oxygen (O2) is an essential element for metazoan life. Among its many roles, O2 functions ...
Jianxin Xie, PhD Mar 27, 2019

Necroptosis & Pyroptosis Add to Our Understanding of Apoptotic Cell Death

Over the last 50 years, laboratories have been able to demonstrate through experimentation the proce...
Gary Kasof, PhD Mar 13, 2019

STR Profiling: What's Growing in Your Incubator?

Cell lines are a crucial part of life science research and development. But did you know an estimate...

Studying Post-translationally Modified Sites and Disease Variants with PhosphoSitePlus®

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are employed in the cell to alter protein function, and typi...

More Than a Phenotype: A Guide to Assessing Tumor-infiltrating Immune Cell Types and Functions

Although the rise of cancer immunotherapy may seem meteoric to many, the history goes back over 100 ...
Emily Alonzo, PhD Feb 6, 2019

What makes an antibody monoclonal, polyclonal, or recombinant?

When you’re shopping for antibodies, there are so many factors to consider. For example, will it wor...
Chris Sumner Jan 30, 2019

Can I accelerate my ELISA results?

Running an ELISA can be a pain. Identifying pairs for an ELISA is a tedious business, and that’s bef...
Chris Sumner Jan 16, 2019

When should I use flow cytometry instead of western blot?

Western blotting is used to detect proteins and analyze their expression using antibodies, but it do...

Mycoplasma Cell Contamination: Tips for Prevention, Testing & Treatment

Any form of cell culture contamination can ruin your day and destroy your hard work, but mycoplasma ...
Michelle Graham Dec 5, 2018

Writing a Research Grant: Timelines, Future Directions, & Your Grant Title

Finally, the finish line is approaching! You have completed your specific aims, significance and inn...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Nov 7, 2018

Writing a Research Grant: The Experimental Approach

In the previous post on grant writing, we described how to write an effective significance and innov...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Oct 31, 2018

Writing a Research Grant: Explaining Significance & Innovation

The significance and innovation section is a recent (within the last 10 years) addition to the Natio...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Oct 24, 2018

Writing a Research Grant: Selecting a Target Award & Writing Specific Aims

So you’re thinking of writing a grant. Or maybe your mentor has politely suggested that it would be ...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Oct 17, 2018

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