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How to Choose the Best Protein Purification Technique

If you need to purify a protein for your research, but you’re not sure exactly which purification te...

The Hidden Risks of Borrowed DNA: Verifying Plasmids in Research and Therapy

DNA plasmids are foundational tools in molecular biology and are increasingly being used to generate...

9 Examples of Real Zombies in the Animal World

Everyone knows that zombies aren’t real, just the stuff of fictional Halloween movies, right? Not s...

Ion exchange chromatography includes a suite of related methods that purify proteins based on their...

You might be designing a cell lysis experiment to extract your target protein in its native form, or...

Is your protein not sticking to the ion exchange column when you thought it should have? As frustrat...

Do you know what really charges me up? Discussing protein electrostatics, of course! Proteins are m...

Antibodies are amazing! Antibodies from our immune cells help keep us healthy and mount a defense wh...

Let’s imagine that you are trying to express and purify a new protein. You attached a his-tag onto y...

Affinity purification is a frequently used technique to isolate proteins for further research and ot...

You’re preparing buffers in the lab, and maybe you’ve been following a protocol for the longest time...

perimental applications using transfection include gene editing, modifying host cell gene expression...