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 therapeutics have been key to surviving innumerable challenges we’ve faced...
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Beyond pH - Understanding Complex Roles of Cell Lysis Buffers
Cell lysis buffers are used to break down bacterial, yeast, plant or animal cells to extract proteins, DNA, RNA or organelles. Not only do cell...
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3 Small Peptide Tags for Affinity Protein Purification
Affinity purification is a frequently used technique to isolate proteins for further research and other applications. However, there are a lot of different protein affinity...
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All About the Composition of Protein Purification Buffers and Why It Matters
Protein purification buffers are complex and can contain reducing agents, detergents, salts, imidazole, chelators, protease inhibitors, osmolytes, co-factors, and stabilizers. These chemicals maximize protein yield...
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3 Functions of Buffer Solutions in Bioscience Experiments
Buffers are mainly used three ways. First maintaining pH within a range. Second, buffers supply ions for the flow of electricity. Third, some buffers have...
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Simple Overview of the 4 Common Techniques for Protein Purification
Proteins are the verbs of the cellular world. They perform important functions and carry out actions within our cells required for life itself. Over the...
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Buffer Preparation: Tips and Tricks
You’re preparing buffers in the lab, and maybe you’ve been following a protocol for the longest time – just going through the motions. Now, though,...
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A Quick Guide to Buffers and pH
pH is the measure of acidity or basicity of a solution. Tightly maintaining the pH to the desired range is required in all experiments, and...
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Crucial Role of Purified Proteins in Cleaner Industries and a Greener World
If you stop and think about it, the Industrial Revolution was inextricably intertwined with a chemical revolution. Chemical energy – generated by burning coal or...
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What is Codon Bias: Implications in Gene Cloning
Codon bias is a bias for synonymous codons encoding the same amino acid, for example a bias for UUU over UUC when both code phenylalanine....
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Beneath the Surface: Perusing the Protein Powerhouse of Skincare
Do you know what our largest organ is? No, not the intestines, stomach, liver, nor brain. It’s our skin! Skin covers almost all of our...
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The 4 Types of Nucleic Acids Transfected Into Eukaryotic Cells
Choosing which type of nucleic acid you’d want to transfect depends on what you want to do in your experiment, and that might have you...
