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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...
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...
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 work highlighted the rheological experiments that Aimee Sanford is currently working on. The talk was in a great session on Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials. It’s always great to be surrounded by great minds in...
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 further down the gel than the bigger pieces. It is then imaged using an intercalating dye and UV light as can be seen on the screen in the back!...
Check out this great article about Juliann, Medical School, and ROTC!...
Check out this highlight on Darren!