What do you get when you mix red and green? If you are an artist, you get some kind of brown color. But if you are a scientist using Advansta's all-in-one fluorescent Western kits, you get a lot of data for your time. The kits contain all the ...
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Us scientists live up to our Frankenstein-producing alter egos when it comes to breaking down cells. We have almost as many ways to lyse cells as grant reviewers have of saying no. The question we ask today is: How do you grind your cells? ...
Detergent lysis couldn't be any easier, right? You rinse your cells, throw on some lysis buffer, scrape or pipette the cells into solution and you are ready to go! But which detergent do you put in your lysis buffer? Think carefully because the ...
Photo courtesy of Steampunk Family the von Hedwigs Cocktails in the lab? Normally I wouldn't recommend it. But sometimes a good cocktail is what you need to get the job done right. When you lyse cells – either by adding detergents or by ...