How Stuff WorksHow is Lab Grade Water Purified?There's something in the water, and it would love to go after your experiments. Straight out of [read more] |
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How Stuff WorksHow Thermophiles Survive, Part II: DNAIn part I, I answered the question, "How do proteins in thermophiles survive under high [read more] |
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How Stuff WorksThe Secrets of Thermophile Survival: Part IIn response to my last article, The Taq behind PCR, one of our readers, Bonnie Barrilleaux, asked [read more] |
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How Stuff WorksRPM Does Not Equal RCFRPM and RCF are two units that can be used to describe the speed of a centrifuge. Although they may [read more] |
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How Stuff WorksPlasmid v Genomic DNA Extraction:The DifferenceIf you want to isolate plasmid DNA, you crack your cells open and carry out a miniprep, trying very [read more] |
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How Stuff Works5 Laboratory Sterilisation MethodsEffective sterilisation techniques are essential for working with isolated cell lines for obvious [read more] |
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How Stuff WorksHow SDS-PAGE worksSDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) is commonly used in the lab [read more] |
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How Stuff WorksThe Basics: How Phenol Extraction WorksPhenol extraction is a commonly used method for removing proteins from a DNA sample, e.g. to remove [read more] |
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How Stuff WorksEnzyme Commission (EC) NumbersIn the early 1950's so many new enzymes were being discovered in the burgeoning field of [read more] |
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How Stuff WorksThe Basics: How Alkaline Lysis WorksAlkaline lysis was first described by Birnboim and Doly in 1979 (Nucleic Acids Res. 7, 1513-1523) [read more] |