Calcium imaging is a technique that is definitely coming to age, and fancier and fancier genetically encoded indicators are constantly bein...

Luciferase is my favorite reporter gene. The luciferase assay is the most common one because of several advantages (just have a look at ven...

I like to read scientific papers on my commute. My method to screen interesting papers combines google reader, f1000, pubmed and research...

Less than 2% of genomic DNA codes for protein. The remaining noncoding portions have been dismissively referred to as junk. Junk implies t...

Recently, we met two very bright rodent brains: one is the Ratatouille mouse by Pixar, the other one is Brainbow (Rainbow Mouse Brain) by...

One of the 2012 top innovations, says The Scientist, is the new NanoLuc luciferase reporter. But what is NanoLuc exactly and what's rea...

After a PhD in cellular and molecular medicine, Daniel Gorelick continued to study how steroid hormones affect development and behavior. He...

A new study demonstrates the feasibility of using a lentiviral approach to create transgenic rabbits with more efficiency than classical pr...

Cartilage is the flexible connective tissue between our bones, and it is mainly based of cells called chondroblasts that secrete a gel-matri...