Teaching old techniques new tricks – your latest issue of BioTechniques

This issue of BioTechniques looks at how mass spectrometry is revolutionizing our understanding of protein—protein interactions, the latest method updates for SARS-CoV-2 research, new implications for antibody validation and more.

Technology news

Mass spectrometry might be a century old, but it’s still teaching us new things about the human body. Here we spoke to Albert Konijnenberg, Product Manager Integrative Structural Biology at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) about the latest discoveries in the field.

Reports & Benchmarks

How do fixation methods affect antibody validation? What’s the best extraction protocol for sequencing microbes? And can we improve on detection for SARS-CoV-2? Find out in this month’s plethora of publications in the pages of BioTechniques.

Antibodies validated for routinely processed tissues stain frozen sections unpredictably

A comparison of DNA/RNA extraction protocols for high-throughput sequencing of microbial communities

Antibody-mediated soluble CD14 stabilization prevents agitation-induced increases in presepsin levels in blood component specimens

Development of multiplexed reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification for detection of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viral RNA

A short interspersed nuclear element-based quantitative PCR assay for simultaneous human and dog DNA detection and quantification

Injection of Evans blue dye to fluorescently label and image intact vasculature

High-purity DNA extraction from animal tissue using picking in the TRIzol-based method

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