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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...

The Power of Purified Proteins: Medical Applications and Future Possibilities

Think about the last time you were at the doctor’s office or in the hospital. Were you tested for co...

The Art and Science of Food Alchemy: Innovations in Enzyme Applications from Cheesemaking to Brewing

Think about the last time you went to a party or a potluck; what did you eat and drink? Was there a...

4 experimental Applications of Transfection

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

E. coli Homologous Recombination: How It Works and Influences on Cloning

Homologous recombination is the exchange­ of sequences that occurs between two similar (homologous)...

Understanding Auxotrophic Mutants: Yeast and Bacterial Cloning Tools

Auxotrophic mutants are bacteria, yeast, protoplast or mammalian host cell strains that can’t produc...

All About the Turbidity-Based Lysozyme Activity Assay

Lysozyme is an enzyme that breaks down peptidoglycan, and it is often used in protein purification,...

What are E. coli Expression Strains?

E. coli expression strains, BL21(DE3) and DL39 for example, are used for recombinant RNA/protein exp...

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...