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Filarial Infections - Tropical Diseases | Assay Genie
By Juan Quintana, PhD student, University of Edinbrugh
What are Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)?
The World Health Organ
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20th Aug 2021
The common characteristics of cancer | Assay Genie
By Shane Houston, PhD Candidate Queen’s University Belfast
Cancer is an age old adversary of the human race. This out-of-control growth of abnormal cells has been a shadow over human health t
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20th Aug 2021
RIPA Buffer Recipe - Cell Lysis | Assay Genie
RIPA (Radio Immuno Precipitation Assay) buffer is mostly used when carrying out a western blot or immunoprecipatation assay. A RIPA buffer is used in order to lyse cells and extract protein
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20th Aug 2021
Preeclampsia & immune cell regulation | Assay Genie
What is preeclampsia?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in ten pregnant women is affected by hypertensive disorders, and preeclampsia a
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19th Aug 2021
Cells of the Immune System | Assay Genie
The Immune System
The immune system is a host defence system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that prot
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19th Aug 2021
Hydroxychloroquine: Potential Treatment for COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine: Potential Treatment for COVID-19
What is Hydroxychloroquine?
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ
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19th Aug 2021
Microcalcifications in breast cancer: Novel insights into the molecular mechanism and functional consequences
Shane O’Grady, PhD student, RCSI
Cancer is a disease that will, unfortunately, touch all of our lives at some point, directly or indirectly. Despite decades
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15th Mar 2021
Bullying in the Laboratory and workplace
The lab can be one of the greatest places in the world to make live long friends. Spending countless hours in a tissue culture room late into the middle of the night, sharing similar frustra
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15th Mar 2021
Christmas Lab Party Competition | Assay Genie
We know it gets tiring being in the lab every day, especially with the evenings getting darker and gloomier. So, to get you in the festive spirit, we're holding a competition to win money to
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15th Mar 2021
Auto-inflammatory diseases and genetics (SAIDs)
Shelly Pathak PhD candidate, University of Leeds
SAIDs
Systemic Auto-inflammatory diseases (SAIDs) have been defined as a group of mainly inherited disorder
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15th Mar 2021
How does Acute Myeloid Leukaemia start?
I have been in the situation that I’m sure many of us have. I work on genes, which if you name to any right-minded individual, sound like a random string of nonsensical gibberish. So, maybe
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15th Mar 2021
Can infection cause chronic disease?
By Anusha Senevirante, Post-Doctoral researcher, Imperial College London
With non-communicable diseases (or NCDs, which include heart disease, diabetes, ca
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15th Mar 2021
Keep your Lab Book up to Date
When PhDs and Post-Docs start in new lab they have the best intentions to keep their lab books up to date with notes, new research methods, data, and protocol information. These best efforts
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15th Mar 2021
Platinum based cancer drugs and next generation therapeutics
Platinum based cancer drugs
Despite nearly 50% of all
anti-cancer treatments being platinum-based, there is an urgent need to develop
novel therapeutics
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15th Mar 2021
How to improve your relationship with your PI or Professor
After probably a round or two of interviews and a PhD in your pocket you would think that proving yourself in your new lab would not be an issue. After all, they did hire you because you wer
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15th Mar 2021
How to be a Confident Speaker (Scientific)
Like needles in a haystack, interesting speakers that bring charisma and rock n roll to their talks are hard to come by. No matter what the research interests of the audience, these speakers
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15th Mar 2021
10 reasons why you should do a science outreach event
I'll start this post off with a story. When I was half way through my PhD and I had found my passion for science communication, I approached my supervisor for the first time to ask “Can I ha
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15th Mar 2021
What I learnt from meeting 1000+ researchers
Over the
past few years I have traversed through academia in a few different guises,
first as a PhD student for about 5 years, then onto the traditional route of a
post-doc, followed by a
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15th Mar 2021
Cell Signalling – Mini Review
Cell Signalling
Cell signalling pathways have an important role in integrating a plethora of extracellular and intracellular signals to produce a controlle
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15th Mar 2021
The double-edged sword in prostate cancer therapy
By Zoe Angel, PhD Student, Ulster University
Prostate cancer is now the commonest cancer in men and it is the fifth leading cause of death (1). Research
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15th Mar 2021
Follicle Stem Cell Behaviour
David Melamed, Phd Candidate, Colombia University
When I started in the Kalderon Lab five years ago, I had no idea that our work would lead us to drastical
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11th Mar 2021
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP) – Review
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP) were first discovered in the 1960s by Dr.Marshall Urist, an orthopaedic surgeon at UCLA (Urist 1965). BMPs are classically associated with their roles in li
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11th Mar 2021
3 Reasons to Publish in Open Access Journals
Over the past few years momentum has gained in the scientific publishing community for researchers to publish their data in open access scientific journals. Open access to published research
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11th Mar 2021
Fluorescence spectroscopy: An early detection tool for cancer.
Millions of people are afflicted with cancer each year. 2016 statistics for the USA alone show over half a million deaths attributed to cancer 1. We have come a long way from our early underst
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11th Mar 2021