Why Is Cell-by-Cell Analysis Important?

Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms.

EZ-PCR Mycoplasma Detection Kit designed for routine screening and detection of over 90 species of mycoplasma through an easy-to-use, yet highly-specific PCR assay with a detection limit of 10 CFU/mL.

For the microscopic lab worm C. elegans, life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth. The bowhead whale, on the other hand, can live over two hundred years. Why are these lifespans so different? And what does it really mean to ‘age' anyway? Joao Pedro de Magalhaes explains why the pace of aging varies greatly across animals.