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A guide to drafting an all-star team for your lab

As a new principal investigator, you now have a leadership role, guiding your lab members toward a common research goal. Each team member may bring their own unique strengths and weaknesses that...

High-resolution structure and biophysical characterization of the nucleocapsid phosphoprotein dimerization domain from Coronavirus 2

Characterize the true nature of intrinsically disordered proteins without immobilizing them

If you study neurodegenerative diseases (ND), you already know they are one of the most challenging — and fascinating — types of diseases to study. With protein aggregation being a hallmark of ND,...

NanoTemper Technologies launches DLS capability with Prometheus Panta, bringing high-resolution, domain-specific stability characterization

Prometheus, the new gold standard, now provides clarity to the most challenging stability characterizations

Seven tips to give your grant proposal that extra edge

Grant writing is an important bread-and-butter skill that all principal investigators must develop, as this will ensure your lab gets funded to continue conducting research. Reagents, lab member...

NanoTemper debuts the newly redesigned Monolith, offering higher-quality molecular interaction measurements for very challenging targets

PRESS RELEASE South San Francisco, CA. NanoTemper Technologies, well-known for creating biophysical tools that address challenging characterizations, today announced the new Monolith, redesigned...

How to confirm you’ve cooked perfect eggs, using scientific instruments

If you’ve been following my cooking and chemistry blog series, I hope you’ve enjoyed recaps of interesting lessons I learned from HarvardX’s course. For my last post in this series, I’m digging...

The NanoTemper Story – Chapter 5: The Dianthus

Almost as soon as the Monolith launched, the handful of people that made up NanoTemper in those early days huddled around, brainstorming how to translate the technology into a well-based assay....

The NanoTemper Story – Chapter 4: The Tycho

What would you do if you created a brilliant new invention, but no one knew or understood why they would use it? You know that it would change the way everyone works and lives, but you need to...

The NanoTemper Story – Chapter 3: The Prometheus

By 2014, NanoTemper had won a slew of awards for the Monolith. Labs throughout Europe were using MST to measure their biological interactions, and the technology was starting to catch on...

The NanoTemper Story – Chapter 2: The Monolith

It’s late at night in Munich, Germany sometime in the late 2000’s. A man huddles in a dimly lit basement, painting. He paints at night after a complaint from the professors upstairs about the...

The NanoTemper Story – Chapter 1: The Founding

Think back to your childhood. When people asked you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” what was your response? At a guess, if everyone did what they said they planned at age four, we’d...