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
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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
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
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
labware
A glossary of labware terms
Definitions of the labware words that change a result: class marks, to contain and to deliver, joint size, resin, sterile and clean.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read
liquid handling
A glossary of liquid-handling terms
Separate the liquid-handling terms people mix up, from blow-out and pre-wetting to systematic error, tip fit, and the Z-factor.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read
protein biochemistry
A glossary of protein-prep terms
Fourteen protein-prep words, from lysate to glycerol stock, each tied to the mistake it stops before a purification is misread.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
proteomics
A glossary of proteomics terms
A working glossary of proteomics terms, from precursor and PSM to razor peptide, FDR and batch effect, and how each term changes a pull-down or abundance claim.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
nucleic acid purification
A glossary of purification terms
Define chaotrope, bind-wash-elute, yield, purity ratios and RIN, then walk a purification so those words describe one real workflow.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
dna sequencing
A glossary of sequencing terms
Working definitions of read, coverage, depth, MAPQ, Phred, VCF, BAM and the related words, each tied to the mistake that word prevents.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read