For low-resolution work, cells to be used for staining can be grown directly on regular tissue-culture dishes. It is a convenient method that does not require much preparatory work. - [Read Growing Adherent Cells Directly on Tissue Dishes Protocol]
Negative staining is a rapid, qualitative method for analyzing microtubule structure at the EM level. Because negative staining involves deposition of heavy atom stains, structural artifacts such as flattening of the cylindrical microtubule and opening up of microtubules into flat sheets are common. Negative staining is very useful because of its ease, rapidity and lack of requirement for specialized equipment other than that found in a regular EM facility. - [Read Negative Stain Electron Microscopy of Microtubules Protocol]
This Microarray Protocol Preparation of Fluorescent DNA Probes from Human mRNA protocol describes the production of probes labeled with the fluorescent dyes, Cy3 and Cy5, following the synthesis of cDNA from human mRNA and the hybridization of the probes to DNA microarrays.
3' Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends RACE Using PCR Protocol. This protocol contains the steps for 3' end rapid amplification of mRNA by PCR. The first-strand cDNA is synthesized from total or poly(A+) RNA by priming from the poly-A tail of the mRNA using a oligo (dT) adaptor primer. The cDNA is then amplified via PCR using a gene-specific primer and an adaptor primer.