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  • Overcoming Challenges of Nucleic Acid Quantification for NGS
    June 28, 2023

    Overcoming Challenges of Nucleic Acid Quantification for NGS

    Let's say you’re making grandma's famous chocolate cake (I promise this is going somewhere). You pour sugar into the bowl, your trusty scale tells you it's precisely 200g, and voila! Into the batter it goes. Then, you take a taste, and it’s too sweet. But how can that be? You followed the recipe! The bitter (or rather, sweet) truth? Your scale led you astray.
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  • scientist doing NGS
    June 26, 2023

    Top 4 Most Common Pitfalls in DNA/RNA Extraction for NGS (2023)

    Imagine DNA and RNA extraction as baking a cake for a grand celebration - the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) party, if you will. Your DNA and RNA are the key ingredients, the flour and sugar of your cake. A low-quality ingredient can ruin the party, leaving you with a cake that’s dry, crumbly, or worst of all, tasteless. And who wants that? No one, that's who. So, let's dive into the common challenges you might face during this baking - I mean, extraction - process, and how to overcome them.
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