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Mentors at Your Benchside — 115 episodes
Hepatocyte Counting Methods: From Manual Counts to Fast, Accurate Automation
Single Cell Sequencing: Tips to Optimize Nuclei Extraction and Counting
Personal Advice on How to Respond to Criticism of Your Grant Proposal Reviews
Isoelectric Focusing: A Simple Way to Enhance Your Protein Separation
Top 10 Uses of Microbes in Biotechnology
Let’s Talk About Stats: Methods for Comparing Two Sets of Data
Personal Advice on Building Your Professional Network. It Takes a Village
4 Fixatives for Histology and Cytometry: Perfect Your Preservation
Microscope Disinfection: A Quick Guide
Tissue Processing For Histology: What Exactly Happens?
Multiple Fragment Ligation: The Why and How
Funding Opportunities and the Flow of Money in Science
Maxam–Gilbert Sequencing: What It Is and 3 Modern Applications
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Explained In 3 Easy Steps
How to Become an Expert at Getting Funded
5 Types of Difficult Lab Supervisor and How to Handle Them
7 Top Tips to Make the Most of Your Flow Cytometry Training
What Reagents Can You Use Past Their Chemical Expiry Date?
How to Write an Effective Research Interest Statement
How to Preserve Microorganisms: Store Your Cells Better
Overhang PCR: Add Missing DNA Sequences Using Primers
Practical Applications and Considerations of Phenol-Chloroform Extraction
How to Become a Bioinformatician
8 Cell Lysis Methods to Break Cell Walls
Genetic Variants Explained
How to Identify Supercoils, Nicks and Circles in DNA Plasmid Preps
Simplicity in Science: How to Increase your Research Effectiveness by Doing Less
How to Totally Nail Your First in situ Hybridization
Choosing The Right Blood Collection Tubes
A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing qPCR Primers
How to Passage Cells in Culture
3 Easy Tips for Avoiding Measurement Drift in Analytical Balances
How to Make Your Own Chemically Competent Cells
5 Easy Tips for Keeping Your Centrifuge Alive
How Blunt-End Cloning Works
A Beginner’s Guide to Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining
5 Ingredients for the Perfect Protein Purification Buffer
How FRET Works: A Guide to Visualizing Protein Interactions
How Can We Make Science More Accessible?
A Short History of Cell Biology
How to use a Hemocytometer
Understand How Alkaline Lysis Works
All About the qPCR Standard Curve: The Key to Good PCR Data
10 Fun Hobbies for Scientists
How Histology Slides Are Prepared
6 Laboratory Sterilization Methods and How They Work
Types of Digital Images for Stunning Science Publications
5 Controls for Immunofluorescence: A Beginner’s Guide
What is Water of Crystallization? Everything You Need to Know
Better Plasmid Purification: 11 Reasons Your Plasmid Yield is Low
The Importance of Delegation for Scientists
How To Make ECL Reagent: 4 Ingredients, Better Blots
3 Hot Tips to Optimize Your Western Blot Transfers
Top 5 of the Most Commonly Used Cell Lines
Get a Grip: Dealing with Sweaty Glove Hands
What Ponceau S Staining Can Reveal About Your Western Blot
Plasmid Incompatibility: Should You Care?
Protein Colocalization: 2 Essential Methods to Prove Protein Overlap
Why Do Enzymes Have Optimum Temperatures?
The How and Why of Removing Serum From Your Media
Cell Passage Number Explained
10 Common PPE Sins
PPE for Eye and Face Protection—Better Safe than Sorry!
How to Handle Strong Acids in the Lab
How to Use a pH Meter Correctly in 4 Simple Steps
The Dangers of UV Light in the Lab: Keep You and Your Experiments Safe
Problems Amplifying GC-rich regions? 5 Easy Solutions
8 Steps to More Successful Experiments
How Buffers Work—A Guide For Biologists
What Is a Ct Value?
Different DNA Polymerases Explained
10 Good and Evil Ways to Use Your Dr Title
How DNA Extraction Kits Work in the Lab
Funny Fruit Fly Gene Names
How to clean and calibrate your lab balance
How to Write a Thoughtful Discussion for Your Scientific Paper
How Using Oil Immersion Microscopy Can Increase Your Resolution
Artificial Intelligence in Biology
Does Your h-index Measure Up?
How to Check the Accuracy of Your Pipette in 7 Easy Steps
How to Make the Perfect Agar Plate Every Time
Top 5 Protein Quantification Assays
Top 10 Worst Lab Smells
Is Your Bacterial Culture Still Growing? A Primer on OD600 Measurements
How CRISPR-Cas13 Can Revolutionize Your RNA Research
Keep Calm and Spin On: The Whats and Whys of Centrifugation
Protease Inhibitors 101: How They Work and How to Use Them
Constant Current or Voltage in SDS-PAGE: The Great Debate
DNA Ligation: How it Works & 6 Top Tips
What Is Cryo-Electron Microscopy? A Brief Introduction
The Basics: How Phenol Extraction of DNA Works
Postdoc Interview Preparation: Sample Questions and Answers
Creativity in Science: How a Good Imagination Can Help Your Research
Ten Bad Chemicals in the Lab and What They do to You!
How Confluent Are Your Cells? A Beginner’s Guide to Measuring Cell Culture Confluency
Laemmli Buffer: What Is It for Anyway?
What is Alternative Splicing, and Why Is It Important?
Why Is SDS-PAGE Run Vertically? Here are 3 Great Answers
How (and Why) To Manipulate Plasmid Copy Number
Top 10 Tips for Viva Success
A Brief History of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome-Editing Tools
How to Measure and Improve Lab Accuracy and Precision
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Fluorescent Protein
DNA Precipitation: Ethanol vs. Isopropanol
How Fluorescent Molecules Work: Shine Bright like a Diamond
Which Type of Ethanol Should I Use?
What the HEK? A Beginner’s Guide to HEK293 Cells
How SDS-PAGE Works
How a Jellyfish Changed Biology: the Discovery and Development of GFP
Ethanol Precipitation of DNA and RNA: How it Works
20 Telling Signs You're a Scientist
What is PCR? The Beginner’s Guide
A Short History of Cryo-Electron Microscopy
17 Ways to Stop Pipetting Errors From Ruining Your Experiments
Is it Worth Doing a PhD After a Master’s?