Though it sounds like the catch phrase of a bad 80’s action hero, “RIP and CLIP” are actually the two fundamental approaches for analyzing RNA-protein interactions. RIP is the older technique from which CLIP was derived. RIP relies on the principle that if an RNA and protein are interacting in the cell, the protein likely … Continue reading RNA Immunoprecipitation (RIP) & Cross-Linking Immunoprecipitation (CLIP)