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What Is DNase? Deoxyribonuclease (DNase) is a class of nuclease enzymes that cleaves the DNA molecule. It breaks the phosphodiester bond formed between two nucleotides of dsDNA or ssDNA, by cleaving e...
April 2022
What Is dNTP? Nucleoside triphosphate is a biomolecule involved in building nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). Structurally, they contain nitrogenous bases bound to a ribose sugar and three phosphates. And,...
April 2022
If you’ve recently started a new company with a co-founder, or multiple co-founders, splitting your company’s equity is one the first major decisions you’ll make as a founding team. There are many var...
April 2022
There are many legal intricacies to starting a business, making being a startup founder even more difficult than it already is. The legal framework of everything, from choosing an entity form (LLC., C...
April 2022
Is Having a Co-Founder Truly Necessary? At the initial phases of founding a startup, having a co-founder, or business partner, can seem like the best option. After all, having two massively invested i...
April 2022
Tips for Naming Your Startup Naming your startup is undeniably difficult and, unfortunately, many entrepreneurs can often do a terrible job of it. With legal issues like trademarks and copyrights in t...
April 2022
Protein gel electrophoresis, or simply protein electrophoresis, is a common technique used in laboratories to separate biomolecules, including DNA, RNA, and proteins, based on size or molecular weight...
April 2022
Definition of T4 Polynucleotide Kinase Nucleic acids can be modified at the polynucleotide level through many enzymatic reactions. It includes methylation of both DNA and RNA, glycosylation of DNA, an...
April 2022
Advantages & Disadvantages of Incorporating in Delaware Are you a biotechnology or life sciences startup co-founder? Have you recently incorporated your early-stage startup? Like entrepreneurs in ...
March 2022
How Do Business Entities Differ From One Another? Are you a new business owner or aspiring entrepreneur trying to figure out the differences between business entities? The similarities and differences...
March 2022
A huge part of being an entrepreneur in the life sciences is fundraising. The amount of money (and time) it can take to fund research and development and bring a product to market, whether it’s someth...
March 2022
Definition of Recombinase Recombinase is a family of enzymes that catalyze site-specific recombination events within DNA. Site-specific DNA recombination is a process in which DNA strands are br...
March 2022
