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Use Cell Banks to Save Time Growing Routine Cultures

If you regularly grow up the same bacterial culture, whether it’s the strain that expresses your [read more]

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How Silica Spin Column DNA and RNA Preps Work

We give a lot of troubleshooting help on DNA and RNA isolation here at Bitesize Bio because almost [read more]

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Cloning: Where to Hit The Pause Button

We recently featured an article about how to streamline your cloning.  But what about those days [read more]

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Do Your RT-qPCRs Make The Grade?

Real-time PCR is a technique that is now commonly employed in almost all molecular [read more]

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Streamline Your Western Blots

Western Blotting is a long established method for which the protocol varies little from lab to lab. [read more]

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The PCR Controls You Must Use

Whatever the technique, it is essential to have the correct experimental setup to let you verify [read more]

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Important Considerations for Determining qPCR Efficiency

One of the very first things you need to do when getting set up for quantitative PCR (qPCR) is to [read more]

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Streamline Your Cloning

I always keep an ear open for helpful tips in the lab - those little tricks that can make your [read more]

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PCR: The Right Way to Decontaminate and Eliminate False Positives

PCR is highly sensitive, but the downside of that very property is that it makes the technique [read more]

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SDS-PAGE: The Easy Way to Find the Wells

If you have ever attempted to load a SDS-PAGE gel only to miss the well, stab the divider, and then [read more]

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