Biocompare Featured Articles http://www.biocompare.com/ http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Many of the new molecular tools that have evolved during work on animal species is now being taken advantage of by plant biologists - with exciting results. Plant biologists who rely on antibodies, for example, have more choices than... http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1172/Cool-Tools-for-Plant-Biologists.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT Ten years after the first draft human genome was announced, genomic science is finally beginning to pay dividends in the healthcare arena. A few examples: In November 2009, Richard Lifton of Yale University applied "next-gen" DNA sequencing to correctly diagnose a patient, thought possibly to suffer from a renal condition such as Bartter syndrome, with http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1187/Sequence-Capture.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT High resolution melt (HRM) analysis is one of those "why didn't I think of that?" special twists on basic nucleotide behavior during PCR, in which melting curves are compared to detect sequence differences. HRM analysis is seeing a boom of interest recently. "HRM is emerging so rapidly that it is... http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1167/High-Resolution-Melt.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT Not that long ago, analyzing the phosphorylation of a given cellular protein could best be described as painful. If a researcher wanted to know whether a particular protein's phosphorylation status changed in response... http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1165/Phosphorylation-Analysis.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT Immunofluorescence has become such an important tool for biologists that one can now find it in almost any area, helping to illuminate the answers to questions big and small. Challenges for the technique include getting smaller (labeling distinct molecules) and more... http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1164/Immunofluorescent-Innovations-and-Applications.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT The use of human tissue in the life sciences is hardly new. In 1951, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University created the first human cell line with samples taken from an unwitting cancer patient. Named HeLa cells, they went on to serve crucial roles in the development of the polio vaccine and in the study of many diseases. These days, human tissue research is more important than ever. http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1161/Human-Tissue-Research.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 26 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT If you've ever worked with cell cultures, you probably know the agony of manual cell counting. It's a fact of life in the cell culture hood: Before you can run an experiment, you need to know... http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1159/Cell-Counting.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 12 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT Introducing new genes into your cells, or silencing others, is easier each year as the technology and reagents for cellular have steadily improved. And the improvement shows... http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1155/How-to-Choose-the-Right-Transfection-Reagent.html info@biocompare.com Mon, 10 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT Is the most frequently used piece of lab equipment also the least considered? In a sense, yes. No hardware gets more of a workout in molecular biology labs... http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1154/In-Search-of-the-Perfect-Pipette.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:00:00 GMT The power of nuclear receptors should not be underestimated. However, we have yet to understand fully how these fascinating molecules work, though we know they are crucial for many important developmental processes, as well as... http://www.biocompare.com/Articles/FeaturedArticle/1140/Nuclear-Receptors-Bringing-The-Outside-World-in.html info@biocompare.com Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:00:00 GMT