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Probing the Depths of Biology: 4 Ways Purified Proteins Drive Research
Our cells are beautifully complex 4D puzzles - consisting of millions of molecular pieces that engag...
3 Transfection Methods - A Basic Overview
There are three common transfection methods: chemical, physical and viral. Physical transfection use...
From Labs to Life: The Versatility of Purified Proteins in Practical Settings
Purified proteins help feed the world, keep us healthy, improve common products, and even begin solv...
E. coli Homologous Recombination: How It Works and Influences on Cloning
Homologous recombination is the exchange of sequences that occurs between two similar (homologous)...
Understanding Auxotrophic Mutants: Yeast and Bacterial Cloning Tools
Auxotrophic mutants are bacteria, yeast, protoplast or mammalian host cell strains that can’t produc...
All About the Turbidity-Based Lysozyme Activity Assay
Lysozyme is an enzyme that breaks down peptidoglycan, and it is often used in protein purification,...
What are E. coli Expression Strains?
E. coli expression strains, BL21(DE3) and DL39 for example, are used for recombinant RNA/protein exp...
Explain Alpha-Complementation and Blue-White Screening To Me Like I’m 10
Alpha-complementation – it’s a big phrase, but it’s not terribly hard to understand. The technical...
E. coli Cloning Strains for Molecular Biology: What They Are and Why They Matter
loning strains are very specific bacterial strains used in molecular biology to clone recombinant DN...