Modify Your Oligos, Modify Your Experiments
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Modify Your Oligos, Modify Your Experiments

If you’ve ever performed PCR, you’re probably already very familiar with DNA oligonucleotides (or oligos). But did you know that these molecules can do so much more than just act as simple primers? You can add a wide range of modifications to your oligos, which may change the stability, binding, solubility and even visibility, to…

Vitamin H and Egg White: Streptavidin-Biotin for Immunohistochemistry

Vitamin H and Egg White: Streptavidin-Biotin for Immunohistochemistry

If you want to make molecules stick together you need to know about streptavidin/biotin. This article follows on from Mike’s article looking at ‘sandwich’ and ‘amplification’ methods of immunohistochemistry (IHC) and covers how streptavidin-biotin works in IHC, including protocols. Streptavidin-Biotin What is it? Avidin is a natural biotin-binding protein found in egg whites. Streptavidin is similar…