Professionals go to great lengths to sand the bare wood until it resembles glass. You want the wood as smooth as possible before applying stain. This sanding is also a requirement for the final clear ...

Whether revamping a tired coffee table or refinishing flooring, choosing the right wood stain is a key detail. There are ...

Keep the staining reactions at as low a volume as possible to conserve reagents. For instance, you can add 25ml of a 2´ stock of stain to 25 ml of a 2´ stock of cells for a total volume of 50ml. All ...

A recent paper reported the in vitro generation of new prion strains, supporting the idea that 'strain-ness' is encoded in the protein structure itself. This lays the groundwork for a ...

We generated a new type of MHC multimers, which can be monomerized in the presence of a competitor, resulting in rapid loss of the staining reagent. Following dissociation, the T cells are ...

Negative staining is a powerful preparative method for studying particulate specimens. In principle, the specimen is surrounded by heavy metal atoms that act as an electron barrier. Because the ...