Tag Archives: primers

pseudogene timeline

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 remaining… Read more »

6 tips to improve qPCR

6 Tips to improve qPCR (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 »