Hi. I wanted to ask what everyone ended up doing after university?

TLDR: If you did not do a PhD, what career are you in? How did you get there?

I graduated with 1:1 Masters (unaccredited) earlier this year and I feel so lost and hopeless.

I had 8 unsuccessful PhD interviews due to lack of lab experience. I’ve ended up settling for a graduate job as a science technician at a school as i keep being turned down from industrial lab jobs.

I’ve been looking for other jobs as a research assistant to get back into the lab but it seems like almost everywhere needs a PhD or want ridiculous amount of experience. My experience is limited to that during university with no summer internships due to needing to support myself financially.

I’m now not sure if i should try for 2025/26 phds or what. Ideally need a glimmer of hope from those that didn’t take the PhD path. And maybe some tips.

TIA

I have done my Bachelors of Science in Biotechnology as my majors, and have got accepted in both these unis (Manchester and Glasgow). I always wanted study biotechnology with some prospects of business management.

But, now its getting tough for me to select one of them, I have recipe an offer for MSc in Biotechnology and Management in Uni of Glasgow whereas In Uni of Manchester I have received and offer for MSc in Biotechnology and Enterprise.

If you have any idea about the quality of education in both the Universities as well as about the value of their graduates on a global market as well as that in the UK. It would be kind from your side to help me sort out this confusion.

Thank You.

Hey everyone, I have an important presentation soon and I am not sure about the best way to treat and represent my data. I have cell plate treated with multiple compounds in duplicate + vehicle control + Untreated control. I performed 3 measurements: baseline (before compound exposure), 72h after exposure and 6 days after exposure. Now I want to represent the data and show the changes over time for each condition. (My cell culture is very dynamic so I have quite some variability within the same plate due to differences in cell growth). Should I first normalize (divide) each well at 72h and 6D Timepoints against the same well in the baseline (before treatment) and afterwards normalize the resulting values against the vehicle control for each Timepoint? Is this correct or do you have any suggestions?

Thank you!!!

Please suggest resources (YouTube, video lectures or sites) to study different tools and techniques used in molecular biology, biotechnology, cell biology research

It should give a brief idea about the technique and explain how they can be used to solve problems in biology

Hi I have a buddy who’s a professor in this field and am looking to learn more about it so we can discuss it I was wondering what would be good resources to read through first?

Is it possible to develop medicine that targets dna of a parasitic infection or bacterial infection?

Title. If someone takes compounds exogenously and they occur in the body already, for many of those compounds it does reduce the ability of the body to make its own. So does the same happen with Chondroitin and MSM? And is there proof?

If you took testosterone and produce testosterone, it will hurt your ability to produce testosterone. Same for estrogen.