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Articles tagged troubleshooting. Tags group methods across clusters so a technique can be found from more than one route.

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Erlenmeyer flasks of amber bacterial culture clamped on an orbital shaker platform

microbiology

Troubleshooting no transformants

How to read an empty antibiotic plate after transforming non-pathogenic E. coli, using a control plasmid to split cells from DNA.

8 October 2026 · 7 min read

Close-up of a micropipette tip releasing a droplet into a microcentrifuge tube held in a gloved hand

liquid handling

Troubleshooting scattered replicates

Name the technique, tip, temperature, mixing, and evaporation causes of scattered replicates, and what a method specification should record.

8 October 2026 · 7 min read

Mass spectrometer coupled to a liquid chromatography system with sample vials in the foreground

proteomics

Troubleshooting sparse identifications

Sparse proteomics identifications: check peptide amount, chromatogram shape, detergent humps, the search database, cysteine chemistry and whether only keratin

8 October 2026 · 8 min read