Techniques

Methods and protocols in practice – how researchers actually run experiments, and the techniques shifting what is possible at the bench.

218 articles

Nanoscale 3D printing

New High Precision 3D Printer Line Launched at CES

A startup known as Old World Labs is presenting its new line of nanoscale 3D printers at the annual 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las...

Biotechnology
petri dish

Paper Demystifies “the Great Plate Count Anomaly”

Researchers have found out one of the main reasons behind irregularities in gel based bacterial cultures.  Formation of Hydrogen Peroxide in the culture medium as...

Biotechnology
Cryopreservation

World’s First Automated System for Thawing BioSpecimens

BioCision is launching the world’s first automated sample thawing system, aimed to help efficiently thaw frozen samples automatically. Anyone who has worked in a laboratory has to...

Biotechnology
CRISPR/Cas

Agilent Releases SureGuide Tools to Ease CRISPR/Cas Research

Agilent is releasing its next generation gene modification workflow tools called SureGuide encompassing all the tools needed for CRISPR/Cas research. SureGuide follows other such CRISPR/Cas...

Bioengineering
IBM nanotech research

Artificial Nanoscale Factories Produce Biological Molecules

Researchers at ETH Zurich and IBM are reporting success in creating a nano biological assembly line, borrowing ideas from large factories. This is first time...

Nanotechnology
Protein structure diffraction

Damage-Free X-Ray Protein Crystal Studies

Researchers in Japan are reporting on a new damage-free technique of x-ray crystallographic studies, wherein instead of continuous bombardment with x-rays, the researchers record still...

Imaging
stem cells from blooddrop

Stem Cells from Fingertips, A New Technique

Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Singapore developed the finger-prick human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) technique in which a single...

Biomedicine

Researchers Miniaturize Mass Spectrometer with Carbon Nanotube Coating

A team of researchers from Purdue University and the Indian Institute of Technology – Madras (IIT-M) led by R. Graham Cooks and Thalappil Pradeep have...

Mass Spectrometry