Nice Viability Dye

Immunology
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
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Company:

Tonbo Biosciences

Product Name:

Ghost Dye™ Violet 510

Catalog Number:

13-0870-T100

Ghost Dye™ Violet 510 was used as a viability dye in order to replace LIVE/DEAD® Fixable Aqua Dead Cell Stain Kit 405 from Life Technologies, which is really expensive.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Applications

Flow Cytometry

Sample

Human PBMCs, Jurkats cells, mouse LNK, MV4-11 cells, HEK 293T cells

Primary Incubation

Dilute 1/1000ul in PBS 1X, then resuspend cells in 100ul for 15min at RT in dark

Blocking Agent

N/A

Secondary Incubation

N/A

Tertiary Incubation

N/A

Detection

LSRII, Canto 2 or 3

Results Summary

This Ghost BV510 was used on MV4-11 cells (see graph). It works great for a lot of cell types and cell lines and is identical to LIVE/DEAD from life technologies but only cheaper!

Additional Notes

You will need to buy Arc beads from Life Technologies (#A10346) to be able to run compensation in a multicolor panel.

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Summary

The Good

Bright, cheap, works great

The Bad

Need to buy Arc beads to be able to stain compensation beads

The Bottom Line

Switch from Live/dead to Ghost from Tonbo for same quality and half the price!

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