dna sequencing
16S profiling and its taxonomic limits
Judge a 16S profile at the rank the marker supports, and see where copy number, primer bias and species names stop being honest.
8 October 2026 · 10 min read
Knowledge centre
Methods a laboratory can check.
Guides, method explainers and sourcing notes for research laboratories. Written by the EVRINTH Editorial Team from published methods, with catalogue links for enquiry rather than stock claims.
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research sourcing
A checklist before you press send
Walk one finished enquiry through aim, specification, documents, temperature, acceptance, and scope, then place it on the quotation page.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
microbiology
A glossary of bench microbiology terms
Plain definitions of colony, lawn, streak, pellet, transformant and the other bench words a cloning afternoon depends on.
8 October 2026 · 10 min read
laboratory safety
A glossary of biosafety terms
Pairs that share a bench still do different jobs. Use this comparison to choose the right word for a cabinet, a chemical, a level, or a control.
8 October 2026 · 11 min read
chromatography
A glossary of chromatography terms
Use chromatography terms with their real limits: retention, resolution, void, and a peak that is only a detector response.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read
molecular cloning
A glossary of cloning terms
Read a cloning plan and mark vector, insert, MCS, ends, ligase, phosphatase, transformation, and clone against the map before you mix a tube.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
cold chain
A glossary of cold-chain terms
Setpoint is not air temperature, and a phase-change pack is not every coolant. Compare the cold-chain pairs labs treat as one word.
8 October 2026 · 11 min read
cell culture
A glossary of culture terms
Pairs of culture words that laboratories mix up, and the wrong next action each pair causes, from confluence versus density through to confluent versus differentiated.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
gels and blotting
A glossary of electrophoresis terms
Define anode, cathode, sieving, mobility, stacking, resolving, electroendosmosis, Rf, and leading dye for an honest gel reading.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
gene expression
A glossary of expression terms
Plain definitions of Cq, TPM, counts, FDR, UMIs and the other expression words that cause arguments when they are used loosely.
8 October 2026 · 11 min read
genome editing
A glossary of genome-editing terms
Definitions of PAM, sgRNA, indel, HDR, NHEJ, RNP, dCas9, off-target, mosaicism and frameshift, each written to stop a specific mix-up in the notebook.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
immunoassays
A glossary of immunoassay terms
Analyte, capture, conjugate, blank, matrix, spike recovery and lot, defined so a datasheet can be shortlisted before a reagent is ordered.
8 October 2026 · 11 min read