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Ants May Teach Us to be Socially Responsible Citizens and Great Medics
Caring for the sick, valuing the community more than just oneself and excellence in medical therapeu...
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Why Lysozyme and Zymolyase are Important in Cell Lysis Buffers
Lysozyme and zymolyase are enzymes that degrade cell walls of bacteria and yeast cells. When bacteri...
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All About Affinity Purification of Antibodies
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Understanding Competent Cells for Bacterial Transformation
Transformation is a common method in molecular biology with many applications, including cloning, DN...
A Quick Overview of SOC Medium & Competent Cell Recovery Medium
This article offers a quick introduction about super optimal broth with catabolite repression or SOC...
How Do Bacteria Develop Antibiotic Resistance?
An antibiotic is an antimicrobial chemical that kills or inhibits the growth of microorganisms. Anti...
A Quick Overview of Molecular Cloning
olecular cloning allows us to study genes, modify genes, reintroduce modified genes into the natural...
How to Troubleshoot Restriction Enzyme Based Cloning Problems
Since the early 1970s, restriction enzymes have become an important part of cloning and many other a...
Introduction to Competent Cells
What are competent cells? Cell competence refers to a cell’s ability to take up foreign (extracell...