{"id":699756,"date":"2021-08-23T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699756"},"modified":"2021-08-23T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T12:35:44","slug":"an-inexpensive-resource-for-the-protein-research-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=699756","title":{"rendered":"An inexpensive resource for the protein-research community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labs can easily make their own protein ladders\u2014molecular rulers for estimating the sizes of proteins\u2014for less than a penny per experiment using the newly developed, license-free &#8220;Penn State Protein Ladder system.&#8221; A research team of undergraduate students led by Song Tan, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Molecular Biology at Penn State, developed the ladders to be easily used in two of the most common experiments in protein research, gel electrophoresis and Western blots\u2014which researchers use to separate or detect proteins based on their size.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-08-inexpensive-resource-protein-research.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">An inexpensive resource for the protein-research community<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labs can easily make their own protein ladders\u2014molecular rulers for estimating the sizes of proteins\u2014for less than a penny per experiment using the newly developed, license-free &#8220;Penn State Protein Ladder&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}