quality control

Identify small impurities introduced by oligonucleotide synthesis prior to experimentation.

Exploring quality standards for extracting high yields of DNA from biological samples

How to obtain high-quality samples

A concise guide to maintaining compliance standards for pipetting

Parallel capillary electrophoresis is an extremely sensitive, reliable, and high throughput method for checking RNA synthesis quality.

Most of the human induced pluripotent stem cells stored at major cell line repositories and used in research harbor thousands of DNA errors, a study finds, highlighting the need for improved quality control measures.

Researchers use ddPCR to monitor quality at each stage of therapy development.

A detailed look at ensuring water quality compliance for pharmaceutical applications

Automated electrophoresis instruments perform reliable RNA sample quality control and fragment analysis.

Exploring quality standards for nucleic acid preservation

Researchers incorporate an alternative to ELISA and HPLC to characterize lead molecules more efficiently.

Guidelines for maintaining human cells grown ex vivo

Learn how to follow pharmaceutical industry regulations when performing western blot experiments from start to finish.

Conservation of structures and functions between single-celled fungi and human cells allow researchers to probe the brain.

The single-celled fungus allows researchers to study Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and other brain diseases with unparalleled speed and scale.

Our handbook on best practices for quality assurance in biomedicine can help funding agencies shore up research integrity—which is especially needed at a time when mistakes can have outsize effects.