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Purifying Antibodies Using Ion Exchange Chromatography

IEC is a useful technique for separating antibodies as it provides high-resolution separation between proteins that differ only by a single amino acid.

14 Feb 2020

L and D Isomers

This article describes the importance of differentiating between L and D isomers; two important enantiomers in pharmacology.

14 Feb 2020

The Human Metabolome Project

Metabolomics is the study of the metabolome, a number that is characterized as a complete set of low molecular weight metabolites present in the cells, tissues, biological fluids, or the body.

14 Feb 2020

Metabolomics in Toxicology

Metabolomics plays an essential role in toxicological research by providing a detailed analysis of altered metabolic pathways that are targeted by harmful chemicals.

14 Feb 2020

What are the differences between Stem Cells and Somatic Cells?

Any cell type in a multicellular organism, except germline cells, is called a somatic cell. In contrast, stem cells are unspecialized cells with self-renewal capacity.

14 Feb 2020

Life Science Applications of Chromatography

Chromatography is used to separate mixtures of compounds and is essential to many sectors of the life science industry.

14 Feb 2020

How does Fingerprint Drug Testing work?

Fingerprint drug tests analyze the sweat left behind in the grooves of a person’s fingerprint to determine whether that person has consumed various drugs.

14 Feb 2020

GC-FID Analysis of CBD and THC

GC-FID has recently been used to identify and quantify the concentrations of CBD and THC in cannabis products.

14 Feb 2020

Is Machine Learning the Future of Bioinformatics?

Machine learning is currently employed in genomic sequencing, the determination of protein structure, microarray examination and phylogenetics.

14 Feb 2020

Carbon Nanotubes and Drug Delivery

Carbon nanotubes are promising drug delivery platforms that can be functionalized with a variety of biomolecules, such as antibodies, proteins, or DNA.

14 Feb 2020

What is Genetics?

Genetics is the study of heredity. This article investigates the definition behind genetics as well as how varying genes can give rise to different traits.

14 Feb 2020

Use of Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Forensics

mtDNA was used as evidence for the first time in US courts in 1998, and it has since become a staple in many cases where DNA evidence is presented.

14 Feb 2020

What is Forensic Toxicology?

Forensic toxicology is defined as the determination of drug use, poisoning, or exposure to toxic substances as part a legal investigation.

14 Feb 2020

Environmental Metabolomics

Environmental metabolomics helps to study the impact on organisms when exposed to environmental stress such as pollution, changes in climate and infection.

14 Feb 2020

Advances in Fluorescence Microscopy

In fluorescence microscopy, a specimen emits energy when activated by light of a certain wavelength. Some substances such as chlorophyll and some minerals will do this naturally, while others will need the help of other chemical triggers.

14 Feb 2020

How Does a Coulter Counter Work?

A Coulter Counter is an instrument that can count and size the cells in an electrolyte to provide valuable information for researchers.

14 Feb 2020

T Cell Development

T cells are a type of lymphocyte, or white blood cell, that involved in the adaptive immune response and develop in response to stimuli in the thymus.

14 Feb 2020

Microbes in Raw Meat

Contamination of food by microbes is a public health concern around the world. This article investigates the levels of microbes found in raw meat.

14 Feb 2020

Protein Production: Initiation, Elongation and Termination

A ribosome is the cellular machine that produces protein. It has two primary functional units, or subunits, known as the large subunit and the small subunit. Eukaryotic ribosomes are referred to as 80S ribosomes.

14 Feb 2020

Gene Knockout Method

The methods used to carry out gene knockout are mutation, RNAi gene silencing, conditional knockout using Cre recombinase and gene editing using CRISPR.

14 Feb 2020