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Real-time IntraVital Microscopy (IVM): In Vivo Cellular-level Imaging of Internal Organs in a Live Animal
#82 — Intravital imaging of cellular dynamics in a natural physiological microenvironment can provide unprecedented insights into the dynamic pathophysiology of diseas...
Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research
#81 — What are the motives behind science misconduct? How is data manipulated to evidence dubious results? And do you think you can spot edited and faked data? Any fra...
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Sample Prep for Flow Cytometry
What's more disappointing than running your flow cytometry sample to discover it's rubbish? Especially considering time on cytometers can be precious, even more so if ...
Consistent, Error-Free Writing: Tips and Tricks for Time-starved Scientists
Scientific writing is an art that requires as much attention and proficiency as your hands-on lab work. When done right, it can significantly contribute to your scient...
Lab Meetings Live: Career Paths for Bioscientists
Are you an early career scientist looking for guidance on your career path? Or you're a seasoned researcher considering a career change and want to know what's out the...
Breaking the Ice: Freeze Fracture for Cryo SEM
Freeze fracture is a powerful technique that enables imaging of internal structures of cells and tissues at the nanoscale level by freezing samples at ultra-low temper...
Practical Examples of Critical Analysis of Manuscripts
As a researcher, one of the most crucial skills to develop is the ability to perform a thorough review of manuscripts. Manuscript reviewing is a vital job that require...
Using Both the Right and Left Parts of Your Brain to Get the Perfect Job
Have you ever wondered what other jobs are ideal matches for your analytic and artistic skills? Are you looking for an exciting new career in marketing, or have you ev...
How to Prepare a Winning Grant Proposal – Part 3: Resubmission
In the third part of our grant writing tutorial series, you’ll learn how to process a grant review and take the next steps.Dr. Seigel shares how to read and interpret ...
How to Prepare a Winning Grant Proposal – Part 2: Nuts and Bolts
In the second part of our grant writing tutorial series, you’ll learn how to get the attention and respect of the reviewers by presenting your ideas in the best possib...
How to Prepare a Winning Grant Proposal – Part 1: Getting Started
Writing grant proposals can be daunting, especially when the stakes are high. Getting started is the first and potentially hardest step to writing a proposal that gets...
The Reproducibility Crisis: Why? How? What Now?
Reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific technique, and something that is not reproducible is unlikely to be true.Yet despite its frequent neglect, reproduci...
How To Critically Analyze A Research Paper
Don't sabotage your work by missing critical details.Let's face it; research papers are a pain to read. Their dry language and sheer density make crucial details hard ...
The Art of Going Slow: Why Scientists Need to Slow Down
Deadlines. Results. Presentations. Publications. Scientists are under a lot of pressure. And many of us have had our working lives changed by recent global events in ...
Top tips for writing a research poster
Are you excited, nervous, or perhaps terrified about presenting a poster for an upcoming conference? Poster sessions can be daunting, no matter if this is your first p...
Writing for the Web—Tips and Advice for Scientists
Are you looking to share your science online with a broader audience? Or maybe you are considering a career shift and want to move into science writing.There are many ...
Grammar 101 for Scientists
We all dread the feedback on our written work, but it doesn't have to be so daunting! Join the Bitesize Bio editorial team for a fun and friendly introduction to gram...
What is science writing? A guide for researchers considering a career change
Are you a scientist looking for a change of pace? Have you ever considered using your scientific knowledge and communication skills to become a science writer or commu...
5 Principles for Creating a Rewarding Career Inside or Outside of the Lab
Only a tiny percentage of bioscience PhD students will progress to a PI position. This statistic means that ~95% of us need to find a career path other than the tradit...
Precise, high-efficiency editing of stem cells to probe human biology and model disease
Discover how combining two nobel-prize winning technologies—cell reprogramming and CRISPR gene editing—creates a powerful platform to study basic cell biology, develop...
Base editing in practice
Base editing allows researchers to make precise changes to the genome. Discover how this technique works, how it differs from traditional genome editing, and how it is...
CRISPRi as an alternative to CRISPR-cut in human iPSCs
Get help and advice with designing and using CRISPRi in human iPSCs. Discover that CRISPRi is an efficient way to silence transcription, sometimes in a complete manner...
The 4 D’s of CRISPR gene editing: Design, Develop, Deliver and Detect
Whether you are just getting started with CRISPR or want to refresh the basics in designing and performing CRISPR experiments, Dr. Antony Adamson can help. [1] As Mana...
The World of Macrophages: How to Harness Them for Research
Although macrophages were first described by Elie Metchnikoff in 1882, plenty of mysteries are still associated with the cell type. Indeed, while macrophages were once...
Basics of FLIM and Applications to FRET Biosensors
Functional imaging is a rapidly growing field key to driving new understanding in biology. Insights into the function and interaction of molecules are the key to revea...
Adding Multiplex Factor to Confocal Imaging with ZEISS LSM
In this tutorial on confocal imaging, you will learn how you can:– Capture weaker signals—and still get sound, reproducible data.– Reach faster volumetric imaging with...
Cryo-electron Tomography for Cell Biology
In this webinar, you will learn:– The complete workflow for in situ cryo-electron tomography– How subtomogram averaging within the cell yields native-state structures ...
Cryo-Electron Microscopy and the Complexity of Cancer
In this webinar, you will learn:– How structural biology can change the face of your research– The biological challenges of cancer research– Advantages of cryo-EM for ...
Fast superresolution microscopy – with Lattice SIM
Your life sciences research often requires you to measure, quantify and understand the finest details and sub-cellular structures of your sample. You may be working wi...
Array Tomography for SEM 3D Reconstruction
Array tomography (AT) is a 3D image reconstruction technique for high resolution, quantitative analysis of biological structures. For optimal results, ultrathin and or...
