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Monday, September 23, 2019

Macrophage – the new miracle cell? How the phagocytic cell helps maintaining a healthy heart beat

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For some people, when they think of a macrophage, they will imagine a real life microscopic version of Pac-Man running around their body in...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Types of Monocytes

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Monocytes are a group of immune cells that originate in bone marrow and are released into peripheral blood, where they circulate for severa...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Protein targeting

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Different proteins need to be sent to different parts of a eukaryotic cell, or, in some cases, exported out of the cell and into the extr...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

If the RNA in our bodies is essentially copied from our DNA, why might we want to study RNA instead?

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A neuron in your brain and a macrophage in your blood both have the same DNA, yet their shapes, sizes, and functions are vastly different ...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

DNA, genes and chromosomes

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Your genes are part of what makes you the person you are. You are different from everyone alive now and everyone who has ever lived. DNA...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Microscopic effect after stroke

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We talk a lot about strokes in a clinical way in medical school. We discuss which areas of the brain are involved, and we correlate the ar...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Bacterial Transformation & Selection

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Transfer of plasmid DNA into bacteria. How bacteria are selected. Protein production and purification. Key points: Bacteria ca...