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The Scientist’s Creative Services Team | Mar 14, 2023 | 1 min read

In this webinar, Elena Piskounova and Christina Towers discuss the implications of metabolic changes in cancer cells for therapeutic development and efficacy.

The Fundamentals of Spectral Flow Cytometry

The Scientist’s Creative Services Team | Jan 26, 2023 | 1 min read

In this webinar, Mirko Corselli discusses the similarities, differences, and advantages of spectral flow cytometry compared to conventional flow.

a black wolf and a gray wolf follow a third gray wolf, whose head is tilted back to watch, as they trot through a snowy background, with light colored, barren trees in the background.

Black and Gray Wolf Pairings Stem Disease, Stabilize Population: Study

Katherine Irving | Oct 20, 2022 | 4 min read

The black fur allele has fitness costs but also confers higher immunity against canine distemper virus, making mix-and-match mating key to population survival.

a purple betta with white fins in a tank

My Daughter’s First Pet—the Next Big Model Organism?

Christie Wilcox, PhD | Jul 15, 2021 | 10+ min read

Bettas were likely the first fish welcomed into human homes. Now, scientists are welcoming them into the lab to learn how genes dictate their appearance and behavior.

A Revolution in Evolution: Rapid, High-Throughput Biochemical Discovery at the Push of a Button

The Scientist Creative Services Team in collaboration with InScripta | Feb 25, 2021 | 1 min read

Tyson Shepherd will present data from two large-scale screens of libraries developed using the Inscripta Onyx platform.

Shifting Space and Time: How Harnessing Our Most Powerful Cells is Changing Immune Medicine

The Scientist’s Creative Services Team | Dec 17, 2020 | 1 min read

Industry and academic leaders will describe how small immune cell subsets shape the human immune response.

China Is Using DNA from Uighurs to Predict Physical Features

Catherine Offord | Dec 3, 2019 | 2 min read

An investigation reveals that the government is developing technology to try to reconstruct a person’s appearance based on a genetic sample, raising concerns for the rights of Muslim minority groups in the country.

Co-mimic pairs from the species Heliconius erato (odd columns) and Heliconius melpomene (even column) sorted by greatest similarity from top left to bottom right

Image of the Day: ButterflyNet

Nicoletta Lanese | Aug 16, 2019 | 1 min read

Scientists used machine learning to analyze the coevolution of physical traits in butterflies.

Researchers Grow “Frankenstein Ants” to Study Epigenetics

Jeffrey M. Perkel | Oct 1, 2016 | 4 min read

A molecular biologist ventures into entomology to use genetically modified ants as laboratory models of behavioral epigenetics.

Mapping Traits to Genes with CRISPR

Catherine Offord | May 5, 2016 | 4 min read

Researchers develop a technique to direct chromosome recombination with CRISPR/Cas9, allowing high-resolution genetic mapping of phenotypic traits in yeast.