Cynthia Barber
Cynthia has a PhD in Molecular Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently Senior Director Program Management of a Pharmaceuticals company in Boston. Cynthia is passionate about clinical development, and loves learning new therapeutic areas (experienced in HCV, cystic fibrosis, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, pain, type 1 diabetes, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and other neurology diseases).
Articles by Cynthia Barber
Do you know what that NA number is on your objective? We walk you through what the numerical aperture is and why it’s important.
While confocal microscopy seems to have become pervasive in cell biology, widefield microscopy techniques still have a special and important place. This month on the Microscopy and Imaging Channel, we’re focusing on widefield microscopy techniques: covering the basics of what these techniques are and when you should turn to them. What is this ‘Widefield’ you…
I have a dear friend and collaborator whose image file names follow this format: aaaa5kk.tif, aaaa5kkk.tif, aaaa5kkkk.tif, aaaa6p3kkkkkkk.tif, etc. We have collaborated together on several projects, and I dread the days I have to go back through the files and look for a particular image. I am sure that these names have some meaning to…
Why do I see a cloud? When you are looking at protein localization within a cell, have you ever wondered why you see a cloud of fluorescence rather that several individual fluorescent points? Well, light microscopy has a theoretical resolution limit of 200 nm. This means that in theory, to resolve two points as being…