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Thin-Layer Chromatography, Drug Identifications
TLC, thin-layer chromatography, is a procedure of chemistry that can identify over 700 types of biochemicals, including significant medical drugs of legal importance. more...
Placebos, Effects, What They are, How They Work
The history of medicine is awash with drug trials and procedures that failed in well-controlled experiments. Controls are basic and essential for validation of science. more...
Column Chromatography for Molecular Separations
Biochemistry advances with its technology. The ability to discover compounds, and test and evaluate substances enables scientists to advance medicine and therapies. more...
Coffee Filter Chromatography of Plant Pigments
Plant leaves contain pigments important for photosynthesis and cell protection. Chromatography experiments with leaf extracts clearly reveal chlorophyll and carotenoids. more...
Paper Chromatography Basic Principles and Facts
Paper chromatography, even today, has useful application for scientific investigations, and it reveals how chemists can separate and identify specific chemical compounds. more...
Centrifuge, Ultracentrifuge Methods and Theory
Round and round they spin, those centrifuges, creating high g-forces as they work and - under the right conditions - molecules and organelles separate and layer within. more...
Fraunhofer Lines, the Sun, Elements and Universe
Understanding the sun, solar systems, and the universe is a constant and intense quest of astronomers. Spectroscopes and Fraunhofer's lines reveal the universal elements. more...
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Jeffrey Willett
Natural tickling cannot be duplicated in the laboratory. As a result, research on tickling has been limited by the experimental methods chosen. more...
Hypothesis Testing Explained Simply
By: Martin Bell
Hypothesis Testing is used to check whether there is or is not likely to be a difference between one or more data sets. It is the cornerstone of all statistical testing. more...
Persuasive Research Uses a Triangular Approach
By: Marc Latham
When you get a writing job that needs to be researched it is best to include more than one method of data analysis. This article provides an overview of good practice. more...
By: Kenneth Rosen
Techniques that allowed for the rapid determination of the order of the nucleotide bases in a molecule of DNA started a new era in scientific research. more...
Occam's Razor and Scientific Certainty
By: George Garza
The simpler the explanation the better. This theory is otherwise know as KISS. It is also the basis of Occam's razor. This is a theory about evidence and method. more...
By: Sarah Mikula
Harness the power of water pressure by learning to calculate molecular content. more...
How to Perform a t-Test in Matlab
By: Sarah Mikula
Matlab is one of the most popular, powerful statistical software programs available. Running a basic t-test in Matlab helps determine significance between groups. more...
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