The Iceman cometh
On Sept. 19, 1991, Erika and Helmut Simon, vacationers from Nuremberg, Germany, discovered a man’s body protruding from the ice in the mountains of the…
Elizabeth Drewnik
Bone business
Just in time for Halloween, a controversy has erupted in the scientific community over an early human skull that was found in a dig site…
It’s official!
China has received approval from the World Health Organization (WHO) for a live attenuated vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), a viral brain infection transferred by…
The cellular post office
Earlier this month, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prizes. The prize in Physiology or Medicine was…
Controversial stem cell therapy refused clinical trials in Italy
Italy’s minister of health has announced that the Italian government will not permit human clinical trials of a controversial stem cell therapy. The Stamina Foundation,…
A day in the life
Welcome back, dear readers! Last time, we finished Day 1 of the Western blot. This issue, we’ll get into Day 2, which will complete the…
“Save our science”
During the lunch hour of Sep. 16, science supporters across Manitoba gathered outside of the University of Winnipeg for the Stand Up For Science rally….
A day in the life: Doing the blot
Welcome back, dear readers! Last time we covered some of the basics of Western blotting. This issue, we’ll start getting into some of the specifics…
A day in the life: Western blotting
Hello again, dear readers! This issue, we will be exploring the world of Western blotting. Before we do a Western blot, let’s get acquainted with…
A day in the life: PCR redux
Welcome back! This issue, we’ll be finishing up the PCR experiment. Last time, we left off with our extracted mouse DNA samples sitting in the…