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Its a new season and the school year is well under way. To celebrate cooler weather and to combat those mid-semester blues, we're giving away a Cat. #500 EDGE™ Integrated Electrophoresis System to one lucky winner! The EDGE™ Integrated Electrophoresis…
Due to the pandemic, students may have missed out on skills-based labs, or you may be a little rusty yourself! Do you need a refresher on how to pour an agarose gel ? Is your pipette calibrated correctly ? Do you know the differences between blue stains & fluorescent stains and the equipment required ?
Agarose gel electrophoresis is one of the most common biotechnology experiments in high school and undergraduate teaching laboratories. Unfortunately, it also tends to require at least 45 minutes to perform... assuming that everything works exactly as it should, nobody makes…
Read More 5 Tips to Speed Up Your DNA Electrophoresis Experiments
The polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is a biotechnology technique where we create millions of copies of a specific DNA sequence in vitro. (For more about the basics of PCR, check out our past blog post. There is a lot…
Read More Resources for teaching the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
