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Download our free guide for tips on becoming a science writer, including organizing your time and creating your own brand.

Immunohistochemistry is a powerful tool used to advance our understanding of fundamental biology, pathology, and drug responses. Here we expose 10 tips to help you design a strategy for analyzing your images.

Download our free list for guidance on creating and executing excellent presentations. Tips include how to organize your slides, timings, and how to avoid common mistakes.

Download this free guide to learn about the types of considerations of chemiluminescence western blotting, how to optimize your western blots, and much more!

Download this guide to discover how to build your own immunophenotyping and how to select which antigens are best to identify a specific cell type.

Chemists need to determine and optimize parameters for instruments to enable detection of novel contaminants. This guide provides an easy reference for compound optimization with LC-MS/MS.

Sample management in the laboratory can be complicated, procedures vary significantly depending on the identity of the samples. This free guide describes key considerations for sample handling and management.

When Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) sequencing was first released, it promised a huge shift in our approach to sequencing – moving away from methods that had up to that point been validated and entrenched in labs across the world. In this guide, PacBio's Nick Sisneros provides some insight into SMRT Sequencing and the tips and tricks that will ensure success in the template prep and sample preparation for use on this sequencing platform.

For most laboratory workflows, you’re only as good as your starting material. This is particularly true for next-generation sequencing (NGS). Here are several tips and tricks to preparing NGS libraries that hold true across all applications.

Download this guide to explore the essential guidelines that every laboratory and scientist should adhere to when handling sensitive or delicate samples.