Mentors at Your Benchside
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A good mentor can be the difference between success and failure. But what to do if you don't have help on hand? Mentors At Your Benchside provides curated help and advice from experienced researchers on various topics, from lab skills and techniques to career progression.
Each short episode is bursting with easy-to-access help and advice that can improve your results and help you get the most out of your time in the lab.
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Maxam–Gilbert Sequencing: What It Is and 3 Modern Applications
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Explained In 3 Easy Steps
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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How to Become an Expert at Getting Funded
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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5 Types of Difficult Lab Supervisor and How to Handle Them
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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7 Top Tips to Make the Most of Your Flow Cytometry Training
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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What Reagents Can You Use Past Their Chemical Expiry Date?
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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How to Write an Effective Research Interest Statement
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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How to Preserve Microorganisms: Store Your Cells Better
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Overhang PCR: Add Missing DNA Sequences Using Primers
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Practical Applications and Considerations of Phenol-Chloroform Extraction
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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How to Become a Bioinformatician
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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8 Cell Lysis Methods to Break Cell Walls
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Genetic Variants Explained
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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How to Identify Supercoils, Nicks and Circles in DNA Plasmid Preps
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Simplicity in Science: How to Increase your Research Effectiveness by Doing Less
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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How to Totally Nail Your First in situ Hybridization
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Choosing The Right Blood Collection Tubes
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing qPCR Primers
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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How to Passage Cells in Culture
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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3 Easy Tips for Avoiding Measurement Drift in Analytical Balances
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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How to Make Your Own Chemically Competent Cells
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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5 Easy Tips for Keeping Your Centrifuge Alive
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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How Blunt-End Cloning Works
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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A Beginner’s Guide to Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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5 Ingredients for the Perfect Protein Purification Buffer
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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How FRET Works: A Guide to Visualizing Protein Interactions
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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How Can We Make Science More Accessible?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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A Short History of Cell Biology
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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How to use a Hemocytometer
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Understand How Alkaline Lysis Works
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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All About the qPCR Standard Curve: The Key to Good PCR Data
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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10 Fun Hobbies for Scientists
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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How Histology Slides Are Prepared
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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6 Laboratory Sterilization Methods and How They Work
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Types of Digital Images for Stunning Science Publications
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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5 Controls for Immunofluorescence: A Beginner’s Guide
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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What is Water of Crystallization? Everything You Need to Know
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Better Plasmid Purification: 11 Reasons Your Plasmid Yield is Low
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The Importance of Delegation for Scientists
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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How To Make ECL Reagent: 4 Ingredients, Better Blots
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May 30, 2023 |
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3 Hot Tips to Optimize Your Western Blot Transfers
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May 23, 2023 |
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Top 5 of the Most Commonly Used Cell Lines
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May 16, 2023 |
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Get a Grip: Dealing with Sweaty Glove Hands
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May 09, 2023 |
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What Ponceau S Staining Can Reveal About Your Western Blot
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May 02, 2023 |
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Plasmid Incompatibility: Should You Care?
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Protein Colocalization: 2 Essential Methods to Prove Protein Overlap
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Why Do Enzymes Have Optimum Temperatures?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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The How and Why of Removing Serum From Your Media
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Cell Passage Number Explained
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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10 Common PPE Sins
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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PPE for Eye and Face Protection—Better Safe than Sorry!
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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How to Handle Strong Acids in the Lab
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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How to Use a pH Meter Correctly in 4 Simple Steps
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The Dangers of UV Light in the Lab: Keep You and Your Experiments Safe
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Problems Amplifying GC-rich regions? 5 Easy Solutions
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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8 Steps to More Successful Experiments
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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How Buffers Work—A Guide For Biologists
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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What Is a Ct Value?
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Different DNA Polymerases Explained
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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10 Good and Evil Ways to Use Your Dr Title
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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How DNA Extraction Kits Work in the Lab
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Funny Fruit Fly Gene Names
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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How to clean and calibrate your lab balance
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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How to Write a Thoughtful Discussion for Your Scientific Paper
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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How Using Oil Immersion Microscopy Can Increase Your Resolution
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Artificial Intelligence in Biology
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Does Your h-index Measure Up?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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How to Check the Accuracy of Your Pipette in 7 Easy Steps
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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How to Make the Perfect Agar Plate Every Time
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Top 5 Protein Quantification Assays
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Top 10 Worst Lab Smells
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Is Your Bacterial Culture Still Growing? A Primer on OD600 Measurements
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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How CRISPR-Cas13 Can Revolutionize Your RNA Research
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Keep Calm and Spin On: The Whats and Whys of Centrifugation
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Protease Inhibitors 101: How They Work and How to Use Them
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Constant Current or Voltage in SDS-PAGE: The Great Debate
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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DNA Ligation: How it Works & 6 Top Tips
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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What Is Cryo-Electron Microscopy? A Brief Introduction
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Basics: How Phenol Extraction of DNA Works
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Postdoc Interview Preparation: Sample Questions and Answers
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Creativity in Science: How a Good Imagination Can Help Your Research
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Ten Bad Chemicals in the Lab and What They do to You!
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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How Confluent Are Your Cells? A Beginner’s Guide to Measuring Cell Culture Confluency
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Laemmli Buffer: What Is It for Anyway?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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What is Alternative Splicing, and Why Is It Important?
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Why Is SDS-PAGE Run Vertically? Here are 3 Great Answers
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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How (and Why) To Manipulate Plasmid Copy Number
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Top 10 Tips for Viva Success
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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A Brief History of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome-Editing Tools
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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How to Measure and Improve Lab Accuracy and Precision
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Fluorescent Protein
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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DNA Precipitation: Ethanol vs. Isopropanol
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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How Fluorescent Molecules Work: Shine Bright like a Diamond
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Which Type of Ethanol Should I Use?
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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What the HEK? A Beginner’s Guide to HEK293 Cells
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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How SDS-PAGE Works
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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How a Jellyfish Changed Biology: the Discovery and Development of GFP
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Ethanol Precipitation of DNA and RNA: How it Works
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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20 Telling Signs You're a Scientist
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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What is PCR? The Beginner’s Guide
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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A Short History of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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17 Ways to Stop Pipetting Errors From Ruining Your Experiments
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Is it Worth Doing a PhD After a Master’s?
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Jun 28, 2022 |