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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

Demystifying Antibody Panel Design for Multiplex IHC

In recent years, immune checkpoints in the tumor microenvironment have been under intense study. If ...
Jen Z Oct 10, 2018

ChIP & ChIP-seq: Should I Use Monoclonal or Polyclonal Antibodies?

Researchers who run a lot of chromatin immunoprecipitation ChIP assays—maybe even your advisor—might...
Kenneth Buck, PhD Sep 26, 2018

Research Trends in Macrophage Plasticity

It’s an exciting time for immuno-oncology research, as potential predictive biomarkers from an expan...
Kenneth Buck, PhD Sep 19, 2018

Milk or BSA? How to Choose a Blocking Protein for Western Blot [Video]

So you've set the timer to five minutes for the first of three TBST washes for your western blot mem...
Kenneth Buck, PhD Sep 5, 2018

Targeting B-Cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA) Holds Promise for Multiple Myeloma Treatment

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a type of hematopoietic malignancy characterized, in part, by bone pain, an...
Amrik Singh, PhD Aug 8, 2018

APOE4 & Insulin Receptor Signaling: A Hidden Link Between Diabetes & Alzheimer’s Disease?

You might be surprised to learn that diabetes, a metabolic disease, may be linked to the neurodegene...
Richard Cho, PhD Aug 1, 2018

Painless Publication: How to Write a Conference Abstract

Our previous blog post, “Painless Publication: How to Write a Journal Abstract,” walked you through ...
Chris Sumner Jun 27, 2018

Painless Publication: How to Write a Journal Abstract

Have you ever sat frozen at the keyboard, facing the due date for your abstract and asking yourself ...
Chris Sumner May 9, 2018

Science: Disrupt | The Responsible Science Podcast Series

We're excited to partner with Science: Disrupt to present a five-part podcast exploring what "Respon...

Are you ready to transfer your protein? Wet vs Semi-dry Transfer

You are all amped up to run a western blot to identify “your favorite protein.” The lysates have bee...

GPNMB: A Promising Immunotherapeutic Target for Triple Negative Breast Cancer

The last few years have witnessed several breakthroughs in the immuno-oncology space. Treatments tha...
Amrik Singh, PhD Apr 4, 2018

Missing Link: Why Do Insulin-producing Cells in Type 2 Diabetes Fail to Divide?

Type 2 diabetes is a growing epidemic, and is recognized as one of the most serious metabolic diseas...

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