When the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile sent students home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fernán Federici needed to find a new way to teach his biochemistry lab course. Using open-source ...

When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. Institutions are using virtual reality programs to immerse students in laboratory simulations. They’re also mailing lab ...

With all the recent attention on Mars and the search for evidence of ancient life there, it’s easy to forget that not only has the Red Planet been under the figurative microscope since the early days ...

A new method enables an average biochemistry laboratory to make its own gene sequences for only about $2 per gene, a process that previously would require its researchers to pay a commercial vendor ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications adds further evidence to the bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19's viral pathogenesis - a theory that was posited two years ago by a team of researchers ...

Chemistry is a particularly hands-on science. So what happens when students can’t be in the lab? For a few faculty and staff members in Concordia’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the answer ...

A factorial experiment was designed to study the effects of Mg2+, K+, and Na+ on the growth and biochemistry of Chlorella sorokiniana. Raising Mg2+ or K+ concentration in the nutrient medium increased ...