Benefits of a Colorful qPCR Loading
qPCR is a powerful tool for quantification of gene expression levels and copy number variation. Despite the advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS), qPCR still serves as the “gold standard” for… Read more »
Tag Archives: gene analysis
Circadian Clocks and its connection to Breast Cancer
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W Young for research that established key mechanistic principles on how circadian… Read more »
Hidden Treasure in “Junk DNA”
3 Reasons Why You Should Take “Pseudogenes” Seriously in Your Research Protein-coding DNA, or “functional” genes, only accounts for up to 2% in the human genome. Until recently, the… Read more »
6 Tips to improve qPCR array (Part 3 of 3)
In this final installment on how to improve your qPCR gene expression profiling (see 6 Tips to Improve qPCR: part 1 and part 2 for previous discussion), we will discuss… Read more »
The Transcriptome Age: Or, A Young Scientist’s Illustrated Primer
Despite being essential for any experiment involving DNA replication, people rarely give primers a second thought. To coincide with the launch of our new qPCR gene reference tool, we’ll be… Read more »
6 Tips to Improve qPCR (part 2 of 3)
In this next installment on how to improve your qPCR gene profiling (see 6 Tips to Improve qPCR for previous discussion), we would like to discuss the limitations of melting… Read more »