ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in this book. The book deals with basic, but important underlying concepts such as health and safety, and how to calculate concentrations for making up reagents and handle Undergraduate and postgraduate students of science, medicine and biomedical science data. Scientific research is a voyage of discovery, a journey through the murkier corners of the unknown towards the lofty goal of enlightenment and understanding. There is nothing more rewarding than actually discovering something that no-one knew before, and adding it to the sum of human knowledge. As well as the science, working in research also requires students to acquire and develop some of those ever-useful and totally fundamental transferable skills - organisation, independence, initiative and determination. Practising medics coming back into a laboratory situation will also find a lot of useful information here which will help to guide them through the pitfalls of re-entering the research domain.
