Welcome Back to the Lab! Onward, US Ants! The final step to prepare our DNA for sequencing is to perform gel electrophoresis. Gel electrophoresis is a way to visualize the […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Onward, US Ants! Now that we’ve extracted and isolated DNA from our tissue samples, it’s time to amplify – or make copies of – our DNA. […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! We’re on to the next step in our Barcoding US Ants project! Now that we’ve collected our specimens, it’s time to do some hard science: We […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! For the next couple weeks, we will be taking a deep dive into our summer project, Barcoding US Ants. But before we can even begin the […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! Last summer, MBHI began a partnership with the DNA Learning Center at the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory in Long Island. This partnership is part of […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! As our animals molt and grow, we try our best to preserve their cast-off exoskeletons (molts) so that we can use them in our education […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! A couple weeks ago, we covered a handful of insect delicacies from around the world. But we aren’t covering entomophagy for the sake of shock value; […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! As we fast approach the one-year mark on the worldwide COVID-19 shutdown, and given the truly extraordinary leaps we have made in a relatively short […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! What did you have for breakfast this morning? Cereal? Eggo waffles? Pan-fried scorpion? If consuming insects has never crossed your mind, then you’d be considered […]

Welcome Back to the Lab! We’ve finally reached sunshine season! Well, kind of. We’ve reached that season where the sun comes out and gives one the sense that spring is coming, […]