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Writing a Research Grant: What Are My Chances of Acceptance?

The late nights, the writer’s block, the last harried review of all of the components is finished. T...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Sep 8, 2021

Writing a Research Grant: Interpreting Summary Statement & Reviewer’s Critiques

You received your National Institutes of Health (NIH) scoring notice and hopefully 1) your grant got...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Sep 1, 2021

Writing A Research Grant: Budget Justification, Support Letters, & More

Previous posts in the grant writing series have dealt with many of the different parts of the grant ...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Aug 25, 2021

Writing a Research Grant: Smaller Application Components

It is a certainty that you have now spent, or should have spent, the majority of your time working o...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Aug 18, 2021

Understanding Mitophagy: Pathways, Disease Links, and Tools for Detection

Mitochondrial health is a complex, carefully regulated process involving pathways that determine mit...
Gary Kasof, PhD Aug 11, 2021

Antibody Essentials: Important Considerations for Antibody Selection

As a researcher, your experiments are designed to ask new questions and pursue scientific knowledge ...
Kenneth Buck, PhD Aug 4, 2021

Antibody Essentials: What Are Polyclonal vs Monoclonal Antibodies?

In this blog series, we are delving into some of the advantages and disadvantages of polyclonal and ...
Kenneth Buck, PhD Jul 28, 2021

Antibody Essentials: How Antibody Technologies Evolved

Since the discovery of antibodies, decades of research and development have spurred technological ad...
Kenneth Buck, PhD Jul 21, 2021

Antibody Essentials: Antibody Diversity and Classification

Understanding how antibodies are made and the pros and cons of the different types of antibodies is ...
Kenneth Buck, PhD Jul 14, 2021

Antibody Essentials: What Is a Research Antibody?

As a scientist, you probably already appreciate the vital role of antibodies in research. You may al...
Kenneth Buck, PhD Jul 7, 2021

Immunology: Immunophenotyping Using Flow Cytometry or IHC

In the field of immunology and immuno-oncology, immunophenotyping is a technique that uses antibodie...
Chris Sumner Jun 30, 2021

Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neuroinflammation is the activation of an immune response in the central nervous system (CNS; brain ...
Chris Sumner Jun 23, 2021

Autophagy: Taking Out the Cellular Trash Has Widespread Therapeutic Implications

The term “autophagy” introduced by the biochemist Christian de Duve in 1963 is derived from the Gree...
Gary Kasof, PhD Jun 16, 2021

Cancer Biomarker Antibody Selection for IHC

What are cancer biomarkers? Biomarkers are naturally occurring molecules that can be used as indicat...

What is glycolysis and what is its role in metabolism?

Glycolysis and oxidative respiration are the two major metabolic pathways cells employ in order to c...
Chris Sumner May 26, 2021

Neurotransmitters, Receptors, and Transporters

Neurons are central nervous system (CNS) cells that receive and transmit electrochemical signals by ...
Chris Sumner May 19, 2021

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