Ania Wronski

Mission Bio
Ania Wronski
Ania has a PhD in Molecular Biology from The University of Queensland and is currently Director of Market Development and Applications at Mission Bio. Ania has experience in drug discovery, genetics, molecular biology and genetic testing and is passionate about improving our knowledge of human life and communicating science to the general public.

Articles by Ania Wronski

Restriction Enzymes: Five Things to Consider Before you Chop!

The use of restriction enzymes to characterize DNA has been popular since the 1970s. Today, this “old school” technique is still one of the easiest and fastest ways to assess DNA sequences. Like most lab reagents, restriction enzymes can be fickle and you should bear a few things in mind when using them. Generally, sticky-ended enzymes have greater…

How to Light Up your Life – Tips and Tricks to Troubleshoot your Luciferase Assay.

What is a luciferase assay and what is it useful for? A luciferase assay takes advantage of the innate bioluminescent properties some organisms exhibit, most notably the firefly. The firefly can convert luciferin to oxyluciferin in the presence of the enzyme luciferase to emit light. The most common scientific assays utilizing luciferase are reporter assays…

Control your error! How to minimize pipetting error and get low SDs in qRT-PCR

Control your error! How to minimize pipetting error and get low SDs in qRT-PCR

Variability is the Achilles’ heel of research. It can often confound our results and lead us astray searching for solutions. There are two kinds of variability, the first is biological variability. This represents the stochastic nature of the sample you are working with and the inherent differences between samples from the same conditions. There is…

How to Become Immortal: Generation of Immortal Cell Lines

How to Become Immortal: Generation of Immortal Cell Lines

Normal cells are unable to replicate past several rounds of proliferation (termed the Hayflick limit) as with each round of proliferation the telomeres shorten. When the telomeres reach a critically reduced length, DNA damage is triggered leading to cellular senescence. Therefore, if you tried to culture a primary cell population it would eventually die unless…