Manning
2023- 2024 in Science
Lab Techniques
Toker
Nobel Prize Trivia
100

In what year did Brendan start his lab?

When is 2004?

100
This past May, Google released what new AI model that accurately predicts the structure of proteins, RNA, DNA, ligands and how they interact?

What is AlphaFold 3?

100

What is the first step in DNA extraction?

What is Cell Lysis?

100

Where did Alex post doc?

What is the Cantley Lab?

100

On what day is the official Nobel Prize Ceremony help on every year?

What is December 10?

200

Where did Brendan receive his PhD?

What is Yale?

200

This past March, MGH successfully transplanted what genetically-edited organ that was from a pig this?

What is a kidney?

200

What is the purpose of a Northern blot?

What is detecting RNA molecules?
200

What did Alex study during his PhD?

What are 14-3-3 proteins?

200

How many Nobel Prizes did the Curie Family win?

5

300

The Manning Lab is known to dress up in Halloween costumes inspired by what...?

What is TOR?

300

On December 8, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world’s first CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing therapy targeting what disease?

What is sickle cell disease?

300

The ratio of absorption at 260nm to absorption at 280nm is commonly used to assess….

The purity of DNA and RNA with respect to protein

300

What protein is on Alex's license plate?

What is AKT?

300

Who was the only nobel laureate to have been awarded the nobel prize in chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980?

Who is Frederick Sanger

400
What is one of Brendan's talents that people don't know about?

What is ice skating?

400

What diet has been recently found to decrease mortality risk in American Women by 23%

What is the Mediterranean Diet?

400

The first cells were successfully cultured in 1907. What were they? 

What are Frog nerve fibers?

400

Where does Alex say that his interest in science started?

What is The Natural History Museum?

400

Which scientist received a Nobel Chemistry prize and a Peace Prize?

Who is Dr. Linus Pauling?

500

What is something on Brendan's bucket list?

What is Hiking the Appalachian Trail

500

A study recently revealed that what class of cholesterol-lowering drugs may block a pathway involved in  the development of cancer that results from chronic inflammation 

What are statins?

500

At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?

What is -40?

500

How many Coachellas has Alex attended

18?

500

Who was the youngest Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine, he was 32 years old when he won the prize?

Who is Frederick G. Banting?