Scientific Research Methods
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Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis Wise Nuggets
SDS-PAGE is a refined modern research tool, invaluable for forensics, medicine, biology. PAGE and PCR have dramatically advanced scientific inquiries of DNA and proteins.
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Mass Spectrometry, a Factual, Basic Primer
Mass spectrometry is a factual, basic primer for ionic studies. The Nobel-Prize-winning "mass spec" can identify atoms and molecules with great specificity and accuracy.
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Capillary Electrophoresis Basics and Facts
Capillary electrophoresis is a rapid, sensitive, and accurate way to identify small amounts of many important compounds. The technique resembles a mini-hybrid PAGE-HPLC.
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2-D Electrophoresis Facts and Primal Data
2-D electrophoresis provides facts and primal data by its clear separations of protein and DNA molecules. For proteomics, 2-DE gives insight into proteins and genomes.
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Electrophoresis Prime Principles and Techniques
Electrophoresis is an outstanding applied and basic research method with several useful variations. Electrophoresis is used for many important studies in the sciences.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Basic Chemical Bonds, A Scientific Inquiry
The world of chemistry is amazing, diverse, and exciting. Bonds makes all this wonder happen. Without bonds, elements would be just random, unlinked, pieces of matter.
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Calorimeters, What They Are and How They Work
Knowledge of the bonded energy within chemicals is important to scientists interested in ballistics, fuels and foods. Calorimeters make such measurements a reality.
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