by Nick on September 30, 2008

With all of our recent talk about how SDS-PAGE works and how to improve your gels, I wouldn't want to give the impression that running protein gels is easy or foolproof. On the contrary, just like everything else in research, (read on...)

by Dan on September 29, 2008

The September 20th issue of Science had a news article that I hope Bitesize Bio readers didn't miss. In case you do however, the article was And Then There Was One: A decade after 26 members of the entering class of 1991 earned (read on...)

by Dan on September 23, 2008

Popular voting is open for the Nikon Small World competition. This thing is great, revealing the beauty of the extremely small in images such as the above one from last year's competition. Small World is regarded as the leading (read on...)

by Bala on September 22, 2008

Last week, Nick talked about about SDS-PAGE. Today I am going to tell you about tweak that will improve your SDS-PAGE protein gels. It involves using Bis-Tris gel buffers. Although Bis-Tris adds a considerable cost to the (read on...)

by Dan on September 19, 2008

It's Friday again, so what do you say we hit the feed reader and see what's goin' on Around the Blogs... We Are Science There is no "Science." There is no "Academia." These things do not exist as coherent entities, any more than (read on...)

by Nick on September 18, 2008

SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) is commonly used in the lab for the separation of proteins based on their molecular weight. It's one of those techniques that is commonly used but not (read on...)

by Dan on September 17, 2008

After some of the blog posts that I've written on animal rights' extremists and violence against animal researchers, there's now a review of a most appropriate book on the topic available in Science - Scientists Under (read on...)

by Dan on September 15, 2008

For something a bit more on the fun side, at least if you enjoy a pint of beer now and then - a genomic-based study has reconstructed the origins by hybridization of the lager yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus, published in the (read on...)

by Nick on September 12, 2008

Highlights from the blogsphere this week include 25 million year beer, googlising your lab culture and, of course, the LHC rap. Careers talk with Mr Big. Jonathan at Working the Bench shares some enlightening, and somewhat (read on...)

by Dan on September 11, 2008

Graduate Survival Guide: The ultimate goals of graduate students are to obtain a Ph.D. and to become prepared for a professional career in science. A "professional career in science" can be a great many things, e.g., a professor (read on...)