What is a Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) gene?
Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) gene forms the sonic hedgehog protein having a pivotal function in embryonic morphogenesis. Yesterday night I was watching a TV show on Sony BBC earth (the copyright […]
Genetics
Maternal Cell Contamination In Prenatal Genetic Testing
“Maternal cell contamination is defined as the presence of maternal cells in a fetal sample such as amniotic fluid or chorionic villi. It creates preanalytical problems during testing.” Prenatal genetic
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What is Gel Shift Assay or EMSA?
EMSA stands for Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay often known as gel shift assay is a technique to study the nucleic acid and protein interaction. The present technique is used ‘in
Genomic DNA Library- Preparation and Applications
A genomic library is a collection of clones/copies of smaller-sized genomic DNA fragments, used in various downstream applications. Do you know? The human genome size is ~3.2 billion base pairs.
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10 Reasons Why DNA is a Blueprint of Life?
“Universal nitrogenous bases & codon structure, heritability, mode of transmission, regulation and expression mechanism are several reasons that support the fact that, ‘why is the DNA a blueprint of life!’”
10 Strategies to Achieve Excellent PCR Amplification
“PCR amplification is an enzyme-dependent process to copy a DNA sequence, DNA fragment, genomic DNA, plasmid DNA or any nucleic acid.“ In other words, we can say, Producing multiple copies
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