Publisher's Synopsis
This reference text for beginners and experienced investigators in laboratory research contains selected, practical, and commonly used protocols in molecular biology and related fields. Each protocol is written in the simplest possible format, and many have been personally tested or used routinely by the contributing authors. Some original protocols developed by the contributing authors or affiliated laboratories also add to the book. These protocols range from the development of new methods for improving current laboratory operation to the cutting-edge new approaches in gene cloning such as mRNA differential display, a method that has gained wide application recently.