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Introduction into Proteinase K
What is a Protease? Proteases are important reagents in biotechnology and molecular biology laborato...
How Do I Prevent RNase Contamination of My Proteinase K?
RNase is a nuclease, which is an enzyme that breaks down nucleic acids such as RNA and DNA into smal...
How to judge the quality of proteinase K
Often, enzymes such as proteinase K are evaluated heavily for their activity. Since the role of an e...
Why Improving Readability is Essential to You and Your Research Manuscript
It’s Friday, 6:57 p.m. in the newsroom, and no one wants to be there. The atmosphere shifted from be...
Introduction to Competent Cells
What are competent cells? Cell competence refers to a cell’s ability to take up foreign (extracell...
How to Manage Sick Days as a Researcher
It’s 6 a.m. and you had a rough night of coughing, a runny nose and a massive headache. Despite the...
Genome Editing Validation using T7 Endonuclease I
T7 endonuclease I is a popular and very useful enzyme that is often used to quantify a targeted muta...
Reverse Transcriptase & cDNA Overview & Applications
Reverse transcription is a technique used by researchers to generate a complementary strand of DNA...
Agarose Gel FAQs
These are some of the top questions surrounding gel electrophoresis and agarose gels. Learn about ho...