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In the early 1970s George Church did his graduate research with sequencing pioneer Walter Gilbert. In 2005, he developed one of the first next-generation sequencing technologies. AP photo/ Lisa Poole

Charting the Course

By Jeffrey M. Perkel | October 1, 2011

Three gene jockeys share their thoughts on past and future tools of the trade.

Charles Perou views scanned gene-expression microarray images with Lisa Cary and Katherine Hoadley in his lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Speak, RNA

By Jeffrey M. Perkel | September 1, 2011

A trip through the transcriptome

Output from a BEAST analysis viewed in the FigTree program showing the inferred phylogenetic relationships among >300 ant samples from around the world.Corrie Saux Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History

Learning to Become a Tree Hugger

By Amy Maxmen | August 1, 2011

A guide to free software for constructing and assessing species relationships

Lebazele | istockphoto.com

How Green Is My Lab?

By Jeffrey M. Perkel | July 1, 2011

Doing science sustainably

Track Your Package

By Amber Dance | June 1, 2011

How to follow stem cells transplanted into living tissue.

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Going with the Flow

By Kelly Rae Chi | May 25, 2011

A guide to the new wave of budget, easy-to-use flow cytometers

Apparatus for collecting exhaled breath condensates to identify protein biomarkers that differ between children with and without asthma Courtesy of VITO

Vital Signs

By Kelly Rae Chi | April 1, 2011

New frontiers in the search for novel, noninvasive biomarkers

Gregory Spencer / Istockphoto.com

Sequence Analysis 101

By Jeffrey M. Perkel | March 1, 2011

A newbie’s guide to crunching next-generation sequencing data

Close-up of an actin tail (green) with a kinase involved in catalyzing actin mobility (red) at the tipCurr Biol, 20:697-702, 2010

Freeze-Frame

By Kelly Rae Chi | February 1, 2011

Tricks for probing a cell’s moving parts

© Shunyu Fan / Istockphoto.com (inside protein molecule)

Proteins Adorned

By Amy Maxmen | January 1, 2011

Cracking the Secrets of Posttranslational Modifications