What is a restriction enzyme This image is a cartoon rendition of the EcoRI restriction enzyme. Two catalytic magnesium ions are shown as magenta spheres and are adjacent to the cleaved sites in the DNA made by the enzyme (depicted as gap...
Obesity is Linked to Less Diversity of Bacteria in the Gut Microbiome The gut microbiome can be considered an equivalent of a fingerprint of the gut in the sense that everyone has a unique community of bacteria growing inside them living symbiotically and aiding in digestion. A...
What are the ten organ systems that make up the human body? Our body is composed of millions of cells. Our cells form unique cell types and function together to create biological machine. Our cells group together to form tissues which are specialized for different func...
Poisonous Plants That Will Kill You – Strophanthus and Ouabain Its been a while since my last post, but I will try to get back to work making interesting posts. Today I am introducing a new series to my blog, Poisonous Plants that will kill you, that I hope to post week...
naproxen vs ibuprofen I recently argued with a coworker about the differences between ibuprofen, the compound use in drugs like Advil, and naproxen sodium, the active compound in Aleve. I asserted to my coworker the dr...
What is an ELISA assay ELIZA ASSAY In this 96 well plate the wells with the darker wells have a greater concentration of a specific protein than lighter wells. Any well with no color can be considered to have none of the specific ...
How is blood pressure measured in small animals? How is it that pharmaceutical companies can develop drugs for humans that lower their blood pressure? Drugs like Lipitor, Levacor, Zocor, and other blood pressure reducing drugs were all tested fi...
What are the four basic tissue types? Groups of cells collectively organize into a structure known as a tissue. The properties tissue is determined by the different cell types that form it and there are generally four types of tissue. Each tiss...
