Aptamers are not considered a conventional technique. Aptamer selection technology was developed about a quarter of a century ago. In the beginning, aptamers were immediately thought to be a revolutionary start into solving many problems associated with the diagnostics and the therapy of diseases. However, multiple attempts to use aptamers in practice generally have been less... Continue Reading →
Possible applications for aptamer use are a big part our research here in the Aptamer Stream at UT Austin! Our students get to develop their own applications and do research on literature as to how this aptamer can be developed, all while attempting to find that aptamer via the SELEX process in lab. Some of... Continue Reading →
Hey, I am Natalie and I am Vaani and we are students in the First Year Innovation and Research Experience at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am Natalie Acker and I am a biology major, thinking about a focus in genetics or microbiology. With that major, I plan to be a scientific researcher,... Continue Reading →
Time for some motivation!---hopefully, you're inspired. In a previous blog post, Jonathan and Yisrael gave advice on the importance of being positive in research. In this post, we (Benedicte and Semira) will elaborate on that. Research requires patience--a lot of it. But doing research also teaches you how to be patient. There are risk and uncertainty... Continue Reading →
This past summer, we were very fortunate to participate in the FIRE Summer Fellowship Program. We worked with six other rising sophomores and our Research Educator, Dr. Spirito, on continuing our projects from the spring. Our project focused on using the SELEX process to find RNA molecules that bind strongly to a target protein. We... Continue Reading →
Hey everyone, this is Jonathan and Yisrael and we're here to talk to you about performing research as an undergraduate student. We ourselves are Sophomores at the University of Maryland, College Park, and we've been privileged to take classes in the FIRE program at UMD. FIRE was made to address an observation that's been made... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Our Lab Hello everyone, this is Chih Hao Wu and Anuj Apte from the University of Maryland! The FIRE (First Year Innovation and Research Experience) Engineering Biosensors group is a new research stream here at the University of Maryland and we already have 6 aptamer-related projects in the making. Here on this post, Anuj... Continue Reading →
This blog is a collaboration between University of Maryland's FIRE Engineering Biosensors Research Stream and University of Texas Austin's FRI Aptamer Research Stream. Student researchers in our labs will take turns posting over the coming months on various topics ranging from: the research happening in our labs, day-to-day lab life, and the latest in aptamer and... Continue Reading →
Aptamers and Biosensors 