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12 Ways to Dramatically Improve your Research Manuscript Title and Abstract
The first thing a person doing literary research will see is a research publication title. After tha...

Easy Exercises and Resources to Significantly Improve your Research Manuscript
Who has time for practice? Mostly no one, not when it comes to manuscript writing anyway. But in cas...

Why Science Publications Remain Difficult to Read Despite Calls for Change
With social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube and Facebook, more scientist...

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...

Why Test for Mycoplasma in My Cell Culture?
What is Mycoplasma? Cell culture is a cornerstone technique for biological research laboratories. Ce...

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...