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How To Run an Agarose Gel for Separation of DNA
Follow these simple steps for running an agarose gel to separate and visualize different size DNA strands.

How To Write a Business Plan
Before starting your biotech company you will need a thorough business plan to provide vision and focus and satisfy potential investors, granting agencies and loan institutions. Check this planning outline for a list of items to include in your business plan.

How To Approach a Biotech Venture Investor
Take a professional, organized approach when seeking venture capital investment funds for your startup biotech company.

How To Invest Money in Biotech
A guide to getting started investing money in biotech with things to consider before investing in biotech companies or buying biotechnology stocks.

How To Become ISO 9001:2000 Certified
Follow these steps to becoming ISO certified for 9001:2000 Quality Management Standards (QMS).

How To Make a Phosphate Buffer
Follow these instructions on how to make phosphate buffers for biological applications at near neutral pH, or adapt them for making any other buffer using a weak acid / conjugate base pair.

How To Make a Tris Buffer
Tris is a chemical with basic properties, having a pKa of 8.1. It can be used to buffer solutions from drastic pH changes, keeping them in the pH range of 7.0 to 9.0. Make any Tris-HCl buffer in this pH range, at any molarity using these simple steps.

How To Make TAE Buffer
Simple instructions on making stock and working solutions of Tris-acetate-EDTA (TAE) buffer for gel electrophoresis.

How To Make TBE Buffer
Simple instructions on how to make stock and working solutions of tris-borate-EDTA (TBE) buffer for gel electrophoresis separation of DNA.

How To Freeze Dry a Bacterial Culture
Quick step by step instructions for preservation of bacterial, fungal or yeast cell cultures, by freeze drying (lyophilization).

How To Make Lyophilization Buffer
In order to freeze dry a cell culture of yeast, bacteria or fungus, it is important to use the right media. This recipe is for lyophilization buffer, for use in preserving your cell lines for long term storage by freeze drying.

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