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DNA Gel Electrophoresis Introduction & Overview
Electrophoresis is a technique where similarly charged molecules in a mixture flow in the same direc...
Lambda Red Mediated Recombineering
Over the years, scientists learned to exploit many aspects of genetic engineering using bacteriophag...
A Closer Look At Types of Cloning Vectors From Plasmids to Cosmids, BACs, YACs and Beyond
Cloning vectors are an important tool in molecular biology, often used as a vehicle to transport gen...
Cloning Vectors: Essential Features
A “vector,” in simple terms, is an agent for transmission. For example, mosquitoes are vectors for m...
Transduction: P1vir Phage Overview - the mechanisms, characteristics and role in transduction
Transduction for genetic engineering of bacteria, over the years, has been standardized using the mo...
Transduction and Lambda Red Overview
Transduction is a method of bacterial gene transfer mediated by viruses. It is a type of horizontal...
Bacterial Gene Manipulation by Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)
Genetic manipulation of bacteria, or “genetically engineering” bacteria, involves deletion of its ge...
Bacterial Transformation Deep Dive: What it is, its importance & workflow
Bacterial transformation is a genetic process where bacterial cells take up foreign DNA from the ext...