When working hard to complete urgent experiments, it’s easy to overlook the basics, whether you’re an expert or complete beginner. One basic but critical factor to consider for sensitive downstream applications, such as qPCR, is the quality of extracted RNA. Successful extraction of high-quality RNA, especially from some difficult sample types, can be a challenge…. Read article →
What’s the best way to describe a researcher’s path in life science? “Road to the Cure” fits almost perfectly. Nearly every research topic in life science is connected to a disease, so whether you are working, for example, in cancer, neurodegenerative diseases or muscular dystrophy research, all that matters is that you are on the… Read article →
It’s been more than 20 years since QIAGEN launched its first revolutionary automation platform, the BioRobot workstation, intended to automate a number of steps in the DNA purification process. Since then, several new instruments have been added along the workflow as you can see from the figure below, enabling scientists to quickly convert their biological… Read article →
Since the development of high-throughput techniques such as next-generation sequencing and RNA-seq, “omics” type data has really taken off. Proven methods, like qPCR, are routinely used in combination with these high-throughput methods in labs across the world. Real-time PCR (quantitative PCR, qPCR) is a well-established method for gene expression analysis due to its superior sensitivity,… Read article →
The song “A day in the life” sung by The Beatles has always been one of my favorites and probably the reason why many people contemplate what they do in their daily lives. Although I moved from academia to industry several years ago, I still have good friends working as post-doctorates who are specifically involved… Read article →
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