The MagneSil system can selectively isolate PCR products that are more than 150-bp long from primers and primer -dimers. The technology can be used with a number of robotic workstations, including Beckman Coulter’s Biomek 2000 and FX Laboratory Automation Workstations. The procedure can also be carried out manually. Typical recovery is more than 80% for a 1-kb product with negligible carryover of primers or nucleotides. - [Read A Magnetic Particle-Based Method for Purifying PCR Products from Solution Protocol]
Traditional animal models to quantify the degree of blood vessel formation are being replaced by cell culture assays
that are easier to set up, statistically reliable and can be automated in a drug screening laboratory. These assays rely on the endothelial cells’ ability to form distinct blood-vessel-like tubules in an extracellular matrix where they can subsequently be visualized by fluorescence microscopy. - [Read An Image-Based Assay of Endothelial Cell Tube Formation as a Model of Angiogenesis]
An Integrative Procedure for Apoptosis Identification and Measurement. Yingyu Cui Lab/Group: National Key Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences. I have uploaded an integrative procedure through which a relatively satisfactory result can be obtained following a single stage of cell culture and transient cell treatment, then detection with different instruments. This shortens experiment time. - [Read An Integrative Procedure For Apoptosis Identification And Measurement]
This unit describes some of the ways that a laboratory can deal with the constant threat of microbial contamination in cell cultures. A protocol on aseptic technique is described first. This catch-all term universally appears in any set of instructions pertaining to procedures in which noncontaminating conditions must be maintained. - [Read Aseptic Technique for Cell Culture Protocol]
This protocol describes an easy method for calibrating micropipette tips that have been pulled in the laboratory. It is essential to estimate the internal diameter of the pulled micropipette tip when adjusting parameters for a new puller or new type of glass tubing. A tip diameter of ~0.3 µm is optimal for the microinjection of mammalian cells in culture (e.g., CHO, PtK1, and COS-7). A 10% increase in diameter increases the delivery rate by more than 30% and can cause cell damage. - [Read Calibration of Micropipette Tips Protocols]
o determine the relative amounts of
LPS carbohydrates present in a given strain. The assay can be done on one set of samples and then scanned at the various wavelengths for reasonable data on the 3 types of sugars.
HEXOSE ASSAY, 6-DEOXYHEXOSE ASSAY, HEPTOSE ASSAY. Hancock Laboratory. - [Read Carbohydrate Assays]
Hazards of Centrifuge use in the laboratory and Operation. Rotor care, and Pre-run safety checks for rotors and centrifuges. - [Read Centrifuge Safety]
Chemotaxis Practical. Thierry Soldati. Department of Biological Sciences Animal and Plant Physiology. The assay in brief. Safety and Good Laboratory Practice: Working in a Cell Biology Laboratory. I-Chemotaxis Assay. Observation of Dictyostelium development stages. - [Read Chemotaxis Practical]
Chemotaxis Protocol by Jeff Hadwiger. Dictyostelium Chemotaxis to Folate: a Simple Assay, from the Hadwiger Laboratory. Detailed Protocol. - [Read Chemotaxis Protocol]
ChIP ping for Dummies- http://mcardle.oncology.wisc.edu/sugden/Protocols/html%20files/ChIPping%20for%20Dummies.htm
In most natural habitats, Arabidopsis is a winter annual: Its seeds germinate in the fall, the young plants survive the winter, floral meristems emerge in the spring, and only the seeds survive the summer months. Most common laboratory varieties of Arabidopsis flower within 4 weeks of germination, and seeds can be collected after an additional 4-6 weeks. - [Read Cultivation of Arabidopsis Protocol]
Detection of Alu by PCR - A Human DNA Fingerprinting Lab Protocol - 1994 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DNA Learning Center - [Read Detection of Alu by PCR]
Detection of Alu by PCR - A Human DNA Fingerprinting Lab Protocol - 1994 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DNA Learning Center - [Read Detection of Alu by PCR]
DNA Affinity Chromatography, DNA affinity chromatography can be a low-tech method using gravity flow at 4°C, a disposable chromatography column, and DNA affinity resin prepared in the laboratory (see Preparation of a DNA Affinity Column). Include 10-20% glycerol and 0.025-0.1% NP-40 in the column buffers to suppress losses due to nonspecific adsorption of protein to surfaces. Load the protein in a buffer that is compatible with binding of the protein to its target site. Keith Brocklehurst et al - [Read DNA Affinity Chromatography Using Gravity Flow - Subscription Required]
DNA digestion protocol & hints. Procedure and tips for restriction digestion. Doering laboratory, Department Molecular Microbiology, Washington University Medical School. - [Read DNA digestion protocol & hints PDF]
Purifying nuclear pellets, Extraction of DNA from nuclei. Method for DNA isolation from Blood. Genomic Variation Laboratory, UC Davis. - [Read DNA extraction from blood]
DNA extracted from peripheral blood leucocytes using 3mls of whole blood. Modification of a salting out procedure as described by Miller et al., (1988). The DNA Laboratory, Medical School, Malta. - [Read DNA Extraction From Blood Leukocytes]
Cheek cells obtained by rinsing the mouth commercial mouth wash solution. Mouth wash is then discarded into a sterile conical tube and sent to the lab. Based on Salting out procedure. DNA Laboratory, Medical School, Malta. - [Read DNA Extraction from Cheek Cells]
The protocol gives general considerations for the design of targeting vectors for transgenic mice. The protocol shares tips in the design of knock-out and knock-in vectors and some of their strategies for producing homologously recombined embryonic stem cells.