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What Is Due Diligence? How to Prepare For It & Avoid Mistakes

“Due diligence” is an important step in fundraising. It is also a key aspect in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. In this article, we will mostly focus on its role in fundraising. When i...

What is ISO Certification & How Can You Get Certified?

What Is ISO Certification? The International Standards Organization (ISO) is a nongovernmental organization created by a group of delegates from 26 countries to develop international standards that bu...

A Guide to Grant Funding for Biotech Startups

As an early-stage biotech or life sciences startup looking to launch a product or service, there are several fundraising options you can pursue to fund your research and development. While we cover gr...

July 12, 2022

Primary Antibody: Definition & Applications

Definition: Primary Antibody Antibodies are small protective proteins produced by our immune system in response to disease or the presence of an antigen. It is also known as immunoglobulin. In m...

July 12, 2022

Secondary Antibody: Overview & Definition

Overview of Secondary Antibodies Antibodies (also known as immunoglobulin) play a crucial role in life science, research, and diagnostic centers to diagnose diseases and develop targeted drugs & t...

July 12, 2022

Cell Lysate: Definition, Applications, & Industry Uses

Cell lysate is the preparation obtained after lysing a cell population in labs using certain chemical reagents and enzymes, or by osmotic and mechanical disruption. They ca...

July 1, 2022

GST Tag: Definition, Applications, & Industry Uses

Definition: GST-tagged Proteins Protein affinity tags are special proteins or peptides added to the C- or N-terminus of recombinant proteins for their easy and targeted purification. Many protein affi...

June 30, 2022

Wash Buffer: Definition, Applications, & Industry Uses

Definition: Wash Buffer Lab experiments need to be carefully performed in order to achieve reliable and accurate results. Especially when it comes to high-throughput assays that require quality and ex...

June 29, 2022

Membrane: Definition, Applications, & Industry Uses

Definition: Membrane A cell membrane is a thin layer present around living cells (also known as the biological membrane or plasma membrane) and some organelles such as mitochondria, nucleus, and chlor...

June 28, 2022

His-Tag: Definition, Applications, & Industry Use-Cases

Definition: His-Tag Affinity tags are powerful tools used in life sciences labs for basic biological studies as well as structural and functional proteomics. The tags are structurally a short se...

Understanding Debt & Equity Options for Funding Your Startup

To fund business operations and finance the purchase or procurement of assets (i.e., real estate, equipment, vehicles), companies often rely on a mixture of debt and equity financing. The mixture, or ...

How to Raise Money from Angel Investors

If you’ve reached the point in your startup’s journey where you have gotten together early data and have some momentum going, you might be ready to start looking for angel funding, or angel investing....

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