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Mycoplasma is common bacteria, that can easily infect cell cultures and cause difference in their behavior. It’s important to not only test new cells, but also do regular testing of ongoing cell cultures. Mycoplasma testing is a good scientific practice, and it is...

Stem cell research and through that cell therapy have become increasingly popular research topic as cell therapy can cure many diseases and conditions that in the past has been beyond imagination. Stem cells have an ability to differentiate and self-renew. Those...

Part 1: Improving protein yield using T7 Express and NEB Express E.coli expression systems Successful protein expression and isolation are prerequisite for many downstream applications, such as protein crystallization and functional assays. While there exists a myriad...

Astrocytes have important role in the brain, for instance in controlling neurogenesis, blood-brain barrier permeability, neuroinflammation and maintaining homeostasis (1). Astrocytes are also very different depending on which area of the brain they are located. Here...

Automated size selection is a superior alternative to manual gel extraction, allowing scientists to save time and money and improve the efficiency of sequencing runs and analysis. Many scientists use agarose gels as a manual step to size-select their libraries prior...

Discovering the optimal conditions to crystallize your favourite protein can be a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive process. Multiple variables such as salinity, pH, temperature, the presence of ligands, and more can all affect the end result. The use of a...

Glycobiology plays an important role in oncology. Most cancer researchers have thought about the genome and mutations in their research topic, and glanced through papers of proteomics, but the third major biomolecule group, carbohydrates, is often getting less...

Count cells like a boss Cell counting is a fundamental quality control procedure in research. It’s simple, but it’s also error-prone, time-consuming, and highly subjective. BioNordika is now proudly representing Logos Biosystems automated cell counters of the LUNA™...

To find out information how to detect mycoplasma contamination read our other post: https://www.bionordika.se/detecting-mycoplasma/ Mycoplasma contamination is so common that at some point all cell culture laboratories will have to deal with it. When the cells are...

Did you know that almost up to 35% of continuous cell lines have mycoplasma contamination according to an article where mycoplasma incidence was compared in different cell lines? Mycoplasma is not only a problem in old cell lines, but it can be present in new cell...