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Sharing our passion for science, one story at a time

Posted on Monday, March 1, 2021 By Nicole Kelesoglu

NEB Passion in Science Award® Winner and vaccine researcher Dr. Peter Hotez shares how low-cost vaccine biotechnology is being used to expand COVID-19 vaccine production globally, the urgency of opposing anti-science rhetoric, and insights from his new book Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science.

Topic: Environment and social responsibility

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Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 By Joanne Gibson, Ph.D.

Extracting high quality, high molecular weight (HMW) DNA can be so time-consuming that it causes a bottleneck for the emerging, exciting downstream applications that require long DNA molecules as an input. Read about how scientists are addressing this bottleneck and how they are using the long read data to reveal a wealth of genomic information.

Topic: What is Trending in Science

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Posted on Monday, December 14, 2020 By Nicole Kelesoglu

Plant epigenetics research is an attractive approach to enhance crops, rooted to accurate methylome analysis in a complex context. The performance of the Enzymatic Methyl-seq method merits replacing bisulfite conversion for high resolution plant methylation studies. Recently a team from the University of California Los Angeles took this leading-edge epigenomics method to task, comparing it to Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing (WGBS) results with Arabidopsis thaliana samples. Discover how researchers can improve studies of any eukaryotic methylome and you might become an EM-seq convert.

Topic: What is Trending in Science

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Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2020 By Lydia Morrison 

Adjusting to SARS-CoV-2 working conditions in research labs takes some getting used to. Find help tips and printable signage to remind lab members to practice COVID-19 safety guidelines in this blog post.

Topic: Tips for the lab

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Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 By Joanne Gibson, Ph.D.

Read about how science and art have become increasingly compartmentalized over time due to a focus on specialization. As a result, scientists communicate with scientists, and artists communicate with artists. Yet, there are parallels in the creative process and spirit behind both the scientific and artistic endeavors, and they are both studies and interpretations of the world around us. Using bacterial art, one lab at New England Biolabs encourages a mutualistic relationship between science and art, allowing the two cultures to inform and enrich each other.

Topic: Art and science

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