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How Detergents are Extremely Useful in Bioscience Experiments
Detergents are versatile chemical tools. But how exactly do they help in experiments? Some detergen...
Charged up: The Complexities and Significance of Protein Charge in Protein Purification
Do you know what really charges me up? Discussing protein electrostatics, of course! Proteins are m...
Buffer Preparation: Tips and Tricks
You’re preparing buffers in the lab, and maybe you’ve been following a protocol for the longest time...
A Quick Guide to Buffers and pH
pH is the measure of acidity or basicity of a solution. Tightly maintaining the pH to the desired ra...
The 4 Types of Nucleic Acids Transfected Into Eukaryotic Cells
Choosing which type of nucleic acid you’d want to transfect depends on what you want to do in your e...
3 Transfection Methods - A Basic Overview
There are three common transfection methods: chemical, physical and viral. Physical transfection use...
E. coli Homologous Recombination: How It Works and Influences on Cloning
Homologous recombination is the exchange of sequences that occurs between two similar (homologous)...
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...
An Overview of Northern blot
Northern blot is a molecular biology technique used to detect levels of RNA molecules of a specific...