MédiMabs Clones
A blog about science
Capture your summer discoveries with MediMabs!
Summer is finally here! Just like many of you, our mascot Medi is all packed up and ready to set off and explore new horizons. When we travel, what is the best way to ensure we never forget those precious moments? We take photos. These snapshots allow us to capture the moment, safeguard our memories, […]
Seeing Double: Unmasking the Mitochondria’s Hidden Genetic Illusion
For decades, we viewed the human mitochondrial genome as a frozen, fully mapped blueprint—a compact, efficient space where every nucleotide had a single, rigid job. But groundbreaking new research (1) from the Université de Montréal and Université de Sherbrooke has revealed we were missing the hidden picture. Tucked right inside the established and heavily studied […]
Don’t let years of research depend on cryostorage 🥶
We all know that sudden wave of anxiety when a laboratory freezer alarm goes off over the weekend. For many labs, groundbreaking discoveries and years of hard work rely entirely on the survival of a few precious vials of hybridomas. Unfortunately, cell lines are not immortal—they can mutate, lose expression levels, become contaminated, or be […]