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Congrats to Kayla Vasconcellos ’12

Posted by on Feb 5, 2016 in Alumni, Posts

Congrats to Kayla! She will take new steps towards her dream of becoming a dentist, DDS, this summer. She’s been accepted to the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and can’t wait to get started. We hope that her work with nanoparticles and hydroxyapatite helped her along the way. Congrats...

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Welcome to Spring 2016

Welcome to Spring 2016

Posted by on Jan 28, 2016 in Posts

Welcome back to the research group and all Emmanuel students. Classes started over a week ago and we’re off to a great start. Look for more blog posts from the group this semester! We have a lot going on.

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Prof. Gerdon Presents at MRS Conference

Posted by on Dec 1, 2015 in Posts

Prof. Gerdon presented the group’s work at the Materials Research Society (MRS) conference in Boston on Monday, Nov 30th. The talk was titled “Effects of Multi-Stream Microfluidic Solution Control on DNA-Templated Calcium Phosphate Mineralization” and focused on the work that Sunaro Ngourn began and Geoff Conklin completed. Some future...

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Krista Meserve – gel electrophoresis!

Posted by on Nov 12, 2015 in Posts, Student News

A technique I learned this week was gel electrophoresis! The gel containing wells of DNA sample sits in a bath of ions that conduct electricity. As the electricity from the power pack moves through the gel, the DNA’s negative charge pulls it through the gel towards the positive pole. The different bands indicate the size of the DNA, as smaller pieces move...

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