It’s not that I have anything against Maryn McKenna, I actually like her writing, fact checking, etc. I thought her most recent article about the new avian influenza outbreak was particularly good. However, sometimes I believe she misleads and misses the mark when discussing antibiotic resistance. Consider this piece. Ms. McKenna describes this paper published …
Comic via In my experience, one of the things that most people are confused with is the idea of graduate school, especially as it pertains to the sciences. So here goes, I’m going to try and explain it for the uninitiated. You’re Going to School for how long? One of the main commitments when entering …
I’ve begun trying to establish a quantitative PCR (qPCR) assay for our laboratory. A while back, when I was doing some qRT-PCR, I ran into DNA contamination in my primer stocks. This was terrible, as I could never get my negative controls to actually be negative, which is critical. I did some searching around on …
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