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Ugh, finals season is approaching and no one is excited about it. Day dreaming about winter break is the only thing getting anyone through the miserable few weeks of final tests and papers. Finals, on top of the holiday season…
December marks the beginning of many celebrations. There is Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, St. Lucia Day, Festivus and New Year's, to name a few. Plus, many people celebrate the winter or summer solstice, depending on which hemisphere you reside…
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Gel electrophoresis is a powerful technique to separate biomolecules for further analysis. We've discussed agarose gel electrophoresis, for analyzing DNA or RNA, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE), for analyzing proteins, previously on this blog. However, we often get questions about…
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As you should remember, agarose gel electrophoresis is a technique that uses electricity and a porous gel matrix to separate DNA (and other molecules) into discreet bands based on size, shape, or charge. The agarose gel used to separate the…
