This Stain Does Not Yield Required Results

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Company:

Biotium

Product Name:

Nucspot Live 650

Catalog Number:

40082

I've been working with adipocytes for years staining nuclei with Hoescht 33342. Tried out Nucspot Live 650 to see if far red might reduce Hoescht's bleed into the green channel. However, Nucspot Live 650 didn't successfully stain the nuclei when I tried. Their customer support was no help and essentially said "too bad" at the end. We tried over two separate experiments.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Cell Culture Analysis

Starting Material

1X Nucspot Live 650 as indicated in the manual. We've tried Nucspot Live diluted in culture media as well as DPBS.

Tips

Doesn't work.

Results Summary

Stained neither the nuclei nor the lipid droplets, seemed to stain something completely different (unidentified). See pic where expected nuclei locations are blank instead of red. (Subsequent experiment with Hoescht showed the correct staining in these locations).

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Summary

The Good

None.

The Bad

Doesn't work as intended.

The Bottom Line

Simply does not work.

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