Heinz Reiske
Dr. Reiske earned his PhD in Biochemistry from Cornell University in 2001. His postdoctoral studies in cancer cell biology were conducted at the NIH/NIDDK and following this, he spent 4 years at biotech companies in the Washington DC area using genomics-based technologies to aid in drug discovery and veterinary diagnostics. Dr. Reiske relocated to the Boston area in 2006 where he worked for several molecular diagnostics companies developing IVDs for bacterial and viral pathogens. And in 2015, Dr. Reiske relocated to Indianapolis to head up the Genomics Department at Covance Central Laboratories and holds that position today. Dr. Reiske became certified as a High-complexity Laboratory Director in the discipline of molecular diagnostics in December of 2017.
Articles by Heinz Reiske
Discover more about biocuration, why it’s so important, and what it takes to become a biocurator. It turns out that biocuration as a career choice is easier than you might think!
We’re all familiar with DNA and RNA. But have you heard of xeno nucleic acids (XNAs)? Read on to find out how they can be applied in biological research, and how you can start using them in your experiments.
Discover what unnatural amino acids are, their applications, and how they can be used in your research in our beginner’s guide.
Deciding on the right peptide sequence can make or break your experiment. Find out what to keep in mind when designing a synthetic peptide.
Are you studying a small peptide or protein? Learn whether using synthetic peptides can save you hours of transfection, protein expression, and purification.
Want to reduce the use of antibiotics in the lab? Start with switching to alternative cloning methods that use alternative selection pressures.
If to you Zoom is just a feature on a camera and BlueJeans is what you wear to work, then let us enlighten you.
Fret no more over fuzzy bands! We uncover how gradient gels can give you better results, and maximize your precious samples when performing SDS-PAGE
Cell in culture need serum to survive and grow, right? Or is it? Can your cells survive without serum and why should you try?
PubMed has had a makeover. Find out where your favorite features have moved to and what’s changed in this shiny new version.
When optimizing qPCR, you might try trial and error to improve your assay’s performance. Tweak this, tweak that, and the assay works better, right? Sometimes you might get lucky but adjusting single assay components interdependent with others is hardly systematic. You can spend a lot of time and resources hoping that this time, you will…
Blunt and sticky might sound dull and dirty but knowing how these different cloning methods work is important when choosing which method to use. Here we give you a guide to how blunt-end cloning works. Blunt-end cloning is the cloning of DNA fragments containing no unpaired bases at the 5’ and 3’ prime ends (i.e.…
What Do We Mean by Diagnostic Sensitivity? In clinical diagnostics, questions about the sensitivity of an assay will inevitably surface. But what does “sensitivity” mean exactly? The lowest quantity of the given analyte that an assay can detect is often called sensitivity – and to be clear, this quantity is the analytical sensitivity or Limit…
When developing an assay, whether it is for basic research or for use in diagnostics, you will often be asked about your assay’s sensitivity. This is perhaps one of the most important performance characteristics you can determine for an assay, and in regulated work, such as in vitro diagnostic (IVD) development and clinical diagnostics, it…