| The Invisible Horde: Attacking Mycoplasma Infections - Mon, 21 May 2012 06:00:48 +0000 |
| Mycoplasma infections are very, very bad news; these special prokaryotes can rapidly spread through your cell culture and inhibit cell proliferation, induce apoptosis, cytokines and radicals, and otherwise transform your cells. Worst of all, since contamination is not easy to spot, you may not realize your culture is contaminated until it’s too late. The 100 [...] |
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| How to Care for Your pH Meter - Fri, 18 May 2012 06:00:37 +0000 |
| Is there anything more tedious than pH-ing a solution? Standing there adjusting the pH of your buffer, adding acid or alkali drop by drop until you get to the right pH… With pH-ing being so boring, it’s in our best interests to keep the equipment in good working order so that we needn’t fuss over [...] |
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| Top Tips For Peaceful Lab Communities - Wed, 16 May 2012 06:00:40 +0000 |
| Picture the scene: standing at your bench, you look up at the shelf of neatly-labelled bottles of fresh buffers, you see your pipettes arrayed in size order by your right hand, the gleaming expanse of your bench is in front of you, ready for you to perform wonders of science on its routinely-cleansed surface. In [...] |
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