All About Plant Explants and Calli – A Quick Overview
Whether you’re new to plant research, need a refresher or are coming in from another area of research, we’re providing a quick overview on plant...
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3 Important Tips and Considerations to Improve Plant Cell Suspension Cultures
ew research is using plant cell suspensions as biofactories to produce commercially important products like pharmaceutical molecules, pigments, fragrances, flavors, and others. However, optimizing a...
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How to Choose a Gelling Agent for Your Experiment
Choosing a gelling agent depends on your needs for your in vitro culture medium. Factors to consider when deciding are transparency, level of impurities, melting...
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An Overview On RNA Sequence Analysis
The analysis of RNA sequences has evolved from measuring single transcripts using gel electrophoresis and PCR methods to measuring millions of RNA sequences obtained using...
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Troubleshooting Culture Media Clumping and Vitrification
Researchers usually encounter two problems when working with gelling agents. They are clumping, and vitrification. Clumping is fairly understood. Clumping occurs when clumps of gelling...
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Media Gelling Agents Overview
In biotechnology and biology, a gelling agent is a reagent added to liquid media to make cell culture media solid or semi-solid. Gelling agents are...
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How to Choose a PCR Probe
PCR probes are DNA or RNA sequences labeled with a reporter molecule. The reporter is a molecule that emits fluorescence when hybridized to the target...
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The Dog-Human Bond: We Wouldn’t Be Who We Are Without Them
As the old saying goes, the dog is indeed “man’s best friend.” Annals of history and folklore have depicted the human-canine bond as a profound...
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Antibiotics and the Microbiome
Alexander Fleming could not have imagined that his discovery of penicillin in 1928 would create the basis for the “antibiotics revolution.” Though antibiotics saved millions...
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How Diet Affects Your Gut Microbiome
We often hear, "you are what you eat." However, we are feeding a lot more than just ourselves when we eat. Trillions of microbes live...
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Human Infections and the Microbiome
When people feel sick, they usually rest to recover. If it’s very severe, a person will schedule see their doctor, and then the doctor will...
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DNA Gel Electrophoresis Introduction & Overview
Electrophoresis is a technique where similarly charged molecules in a mixture flow in the same direction using an electric field, and the molecules are separated...
