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It Helps to Have Nice Looking Hands

Jul 15, 2008

If you're thinking about using JoVE to put up some professional lab footage, check out this post from Jean-Claude Bradley at Useful Chemistry. "One of the main challenges was finding an appropriate level of detail and selecting illustrative video sequences to describe the protocol," he writes. He thinks the shoot, which optimizes a Ugi reaction, went well thanks to JoVE's flexibility.

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