The Value and Process of Authoring a “Research Techniques Made Simple” Article

The "Research Techniques Made Simple" (RTMS) series has covered nearly 75 research topics in the past 6 years to help readers build a foundation from which to understand the vast array of basic science and clinical research tools used in the field of dermatology. The early RTMS articles published in late 2012 through 2014 covered fundamental techniques including flow cytometry (Jahan-Tigh et al., 2012), PCR (Garibyan and Avashia, 2013), how a transgenic mouse is made (Scharfenberger et al., 2014), and basics of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (Abuabara et al., 2012).