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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...
Chelating Agents: A Beginner’s Introduction
A chelating agent is a compound that forms stable complexes with metal ions through different types...
10 Common Techniques For Nucleic Acid Research
There are several experimental techniques to detect and quantify nucleic acids in your sample. These...