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How Stuff Works How 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]
How Stuff Works How Thermophiles Survive, Part II: DNA In part I, I answered the question, "How do proteins in thermophiles survive under high [read more]
How Stuff Works The Secrets of Thermophile Survival: Part I In response to my last article, The Taq behind PCR, one of our readers, Bonnie Barrilleaux, asked [read more]
How Stuff Works RPM Does Not Equal RCF RPM and RCF are two units that can be used to describe the speed of a centrifuge. Although they may [read more]
How Stuff Works Plasmid v Genomic DNA Extraction:The Difference If you want to isolate plasmid DNA, you crack your cells open and carry out a miniprep, trying very [read more]
How Stuff Works 5 Laboratory Sterilisation Methods Effective sterilisation techniques are essential for working with isolated cell lines for obvious [read more]
How Stuff Works How SDS-PAGE works SDS-PAGE (sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) is commonly used in the lab [read more]
How Stuff Works The Basics: How Phenol Extraction Works Phenol extraction is a commonly used method for removing proteins from a DNA sample, e.g. to remove [read more]
How Stuff Works Enzyme Commission (EC) Numbers In the early 1950's so many new enzymes were being discovered in the burgeoning field of [read more]
How Stuff Works The Basics: How Alkaline Lysis Works Alkaline lysis was first described by Birnboim and Doly in 1979 (Nucleic Acids Res. 7, 1513-1523) [read more]