The NanoLuc luciferase reporter dossier

One of the 2012 top innovations, says The Scientist, is the new NanoLuc luciferase reporter. But wh...

Tool of the year 2012: Tissue Lyser

This is Qiagen's Tissue Lyser, the best tool to homogenize 24 or more tissue samples in Trizol ...

Goodbye Rita

Italian scientist and Nobel prizewinner Rita Levi-Montalcini passed away today at the age of 103. ...

A genetically encoded probe for EM

Fluorescence microscopy experienced a 'green' revolution when GFP sent a surge of excitement for live imaging through the life scie...

Coincidence reporter biocircuit

Or when luciferase is positive because of a coincidence Sometimes an experiment is working but ou...

Nature subscription at impact factor cost

Nature magazine is celebrating his highest impact factor by offering a print and online subscriptio...

Mouse dissection with reporter genes

Forget the scalpel, use Fluorescent Proteins and FluoRender FluoRender is a publicly available i...

WTF is in a kit? [ipse dixit #3]

or: Why I'm dismissing molecular biology kits Qiagen workers making the secret recipe - ...

New Brainbow Hearth: lineage analysis

The creative use of reporter genes uncover a new mechanism shaping vertebrate organ development ...

Cover - new paper about a mitosis-reporter mouse model

Molecular imaging of NF-Y transcriptional activity maps proliferation sites in live animals. Mol...

[Cool site] Biology.SE - the first 100 days

My preferred online place to exchange biology knowledge. This is the most interesting Q&A s...

Selling your ideas like Gyro Gearloose

We saw that crowdsourcing pays some cheques to the scientist making his own research lab in the garage . But how to find a relevant researc...

[Interview] Sentinels for detection of estrogenic compounds

After a PhD in cellular and molecular medicine, Daniel Gorelick continued to study how steroid horm...

metabolic pathways: microarray analysis tools

Three generation approaches are today available for functional pathway analysis. Just brief notes and many links for my (and perhaps your...

Solve puzzles for science

In science, game-driven crowdsourcing makes 18 fold better Because of sequential nature of mRNA translation, proteins begin as strings...

DIY Research: how to start their own

It is possible for researchers to start their own private lab? Tweet If in your life you want to sell pizza, it is easy to find a busin...

Image manipulations: so useless and miserable

I did not check on the real original publications if the alleged image manipulations spotlighted in...

Where are your cells from?

Are your human cells coming from executed prisoners? During the Christmas pause, I had occasion to spoke with one of my elderly aunts tha...

Organic iPad made with bugs, my Xmas gift

After the December 2009 ' Bacteria towing Santa's wagon ', this is the ultimate example...