Product Reviews

Biorad’s Gene Pulser II System

Bio-Rad

September 26, 2001

For some time now our lab has used the Bio-Rad Gene Pulser II System for the efficient electroporation of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. ... Read Review

Stratagene's BL21(DE3) Epicurian Coli Competent Cells

Agilent Technologies

October 10, 2001

There is an amazing array of products available for protein expression and purification. Many of the larger companies produce complete ... Read Review

Bio-Rad's Poly-Prep Columns

Bio-Rad

October 17, 2001

For the past several months, I have been using Bio-Rad’s Poly-Prep Chromatography Columns for preparing immunoglobin-G and glutathione... Read Review

BD Pharmingen's Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) Kit

October 24, 2001

The Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) from BD Pharmingen is a flow cytometric based assay for the detection of human cytokines from cell ... Read Review

Bio-Rad’s Model 583 Gel Dryer

Bio-Rad

November 07, 2001

The Bio-Rad Model 583 Gel Dryer, along with the Bio-Rad HydroTech Vacuum Pump, is used in our lab primarily to dry polycacrylamide gels of ... Read Review

BioVision’s Caspase Fluorometric Substrate Set

November 21, 2001

The Caspase Fluorometric Substrate Set from BioVision is a reagent set designed to detect specific caspases by their enzymatic activities. ... Read Review

Millipore’s Amicon & Microcon Centrifugal Filtration Devices

MilliporeSigma

November 29, 2001

The process of ultrafiltration uses semi-permeable membranes and pressure to separate molecular species on the basis of size and shape. ... Read Review

Roche's Complete Protease Inhibitor Cocktail Tablets

Roche

December 05, 2001

All cells contain a variety of intracellular proteases. This becomes a problem when one wants to make cell extracts for protein isolation ... Read Review

Molecular Probes' Alexa Fluor® 568 Secondary Antibodies

Thermo Fisher Scientific

December 12, 2001

The Alexa Fluor 568 goat anti-mouse antibody is the secondary antibody dedicated to those who have always found that rhodamine signals are ... Read Review

Molecular Devices’ SPECTRAmax GEMINI XS Microplate Spectrofluorometer

Molecular Devices

January 09, 2002

The SPECTRAmax GEMINI XS Microplate Spectrofluorometer from Molecular Devices is a microplate reader capable of detecting signal from either... Read Review

Covance Research Products’ Custom Polyclonal Antibody Production

January 16, 2002

Covance Research Products (CRP) is a leading drug development services company that offers custom polyclonal and monoclonal antibody ... Read Review

The Hoefer TE77 Semi-Dry Transfer Unit from GE Healthcare

January 23, 2002

The Hoefer Semi-Dry Tranfer Unit does exactly what you think it would – it transfers proteins from SDS-PAGE gels onto membranes (... Read Review

Invitrogen's Easy-DNA Kit

Thermo Fisher Scientific

February 07, 2002

The Easy-DNA Kit from Invitrogen allows for quick and easy genomic DNA isolation from many different sources. This includes blood samples, ... Read Review

Molecular Probes' Alexa Fluor® 488 Secondary Antibodies

Thermo Fisher Scientific

February 13, 2002

The Alexa Fluor dyes are a new series of fluorophores, developed by Molecular Probes, that are brighter and more photostable than ... Read Review

Hitachi’s U-2000 Double-Beam UV/Vis Spectrophotometer

MiraiBio

February 27, 2002

For some time now our lab has used the Hitachi U-2000 Spectrophotometer for the routine quantification of samples as well as for observing ... Read Review

Qiagen’s RNeasy Mini Kit

March 07, 2002

The RNeasy kit can purify total RNA from animal cells or tissues, bacteria and yeast and another similar kit is available for the extraction... Read Review

Vector Laboratories’ DAB Peroxidase Substrate Kit

March 13, 2002

The DAB Peroxidase Substrate Kit from Vector Laboratories is designed to simplify the process of staining through the use of premixed ... Read Review

Upstate Biotechnology’s Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) Assay Kit

MilliporeSigma

March 20, 2002

Transcriptional activation and inactivation is intimately associated with the either the relaxed or taut conformation of chromatin structure... Read Review

BD Pharmingen’s Annexin:FITC Apoptosis Kit I

April 03, 2002

The study of apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is one of the most cutting-edge research areas in modern biology. Apoptosis is a multi-... Read Review

Invitrogen's SuperScript™ One-Step RT-PCR with Platinum® Taq

Thermo Fisher Scientific

April 11, 2002

Superscript One-Step RT-PCR with Platinum Taq from Invitrogen is designed for convenient, one-tube RT-PCR. The kit consists of two main ... Read Review

Roche’s 5-Bromo-2'-deoxy-uridine Labeling and Detection Kit II

Roche

April 24, 2002

The proliferation of cells is a complex, multistep process that is regulated by a vast array of extracellular and intracellular signals. ... Read Review

Qiagen's Genomic Tip G/100

May 16, 2002

The G/100 columns isolate genomic DNA fragments ranging from 20 to 150 kilobase pairs (kbp) in size directly from whole blood, cultured ... Read Review

New England Biolabs’ VentR® DNA Polymerase

New England Biolabs

May 22, 2002

Because there are a number of different methods that can be used to determine the fidelity of a given polymerase, it is difficult to compare... Read Review

Boekel Rocker II

Boekel Scientific

May 29, 2002

There are a wide variety of instruments on the market designed to agitate samples. These can be broken down into 3 categories according to ... Read Review

Novagen's KOD DNA Polymerase

Novagen

June 05, 2002

Novagen has introduced a fast and accurate recombinant form of DNA polymerase from the thermophile Thermococcus kodakaraensis. KOD HiFi DNA ... Read Review

The BD FACSCalibur System

BD Biosciences

June 12, 2002

The BD FACSCalibur System from BD Biosciences is a Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) consisting of a multiparameter, flexible system... Read Review

Roche's LightCycler™ System

Roche

June 27, 2002

The LightCycler™ System from Roche allows researchers to perform PCR reactions quickly while also giving them the ability to monitor the ... Read Review

siRNA Oligonucleotide Synthesis at Dharmacon Research

July 10, 2002

Recent discoveries have shown that double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) can silence the expression of a gene that is homologous to one of the strands... Read Review

BioRad's Rotofor Cell System

Bio-Rad

July 17, 2002

The BioRad Rotofor Cell System is designed to perform solution-phase, preparative isoelectric focusing of complex protein mixtures. The ... Read Review

Gradipore’s Tris Glycine Pre-Cast iGels

Gradipore, Inc.

July 24, 2002

Unfortunately, the shelf life of these pre-cast gels is rather short. The scientist who frequently needs to jump right into an ... Read Review

Bio-Rad's DC Protein Assay

Bio-Rad

July 31, 2002

The DC Protein Assay is a colorometric assay for the determination of protein concentration from Bio-Rad. Like other protein assays by Bio-... Read Review

Zymo Research's DNA Clean and Concentrator-5

August 07, 2002

Zymo Research has simplified my life with their DNA Clean & Concentrator-5 kit. Recently, I tried this kit for the first time and I was ... Read Review

Idea Scientific's Genie Blotter

Idea Scientific

August 21, 2002

I have tried quite a number of electrophorectic transfer units over the past 15 years, including tank and semi-dry styles. Although all work... Read Review

Miltenyi Biotec’s IFNγ Secretion Assay Detection Kit (PE)

Miltenyi Biotec

September 05, 2002

The MACS IFNg Secretion Assay Detection Kit is designed for the analysis of IFN-gamma (IFNg) secreting lymphocytes using flow cytometry. In... Read Review

Bio-Rad’s Protean IEF Cell

Bio-Rad

September 11, 2002

The BioRad Protean IEF cell is designed to carry out the first dimension of 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The unit consists of a ... Read Review

The BTX 2-Needle Array

BTX

September 20, 2002

In vivo gene delivery is usually achieved by one of two methods: viral vectors or electroporation. Recently our lab has been using the BTX ... Read Review

Mirus' TransIT-TKO siRNA Tranfection Reagent

Mirus Bio

October 02, 2002

One way for researchers to deduce a gene products’ function is to eliminate that gene, hence eliminating the protein, in an organism and ... Read Review

The XCell II Blot Module from Invitrogen

Thermo Fisher Scientific

October 16, 2002

The Xcell II Blot module comes from Invitrogen, which now markets the Novex range of protein electrophoresis products. This blot module can... Read Review

Vivascience’s Centrifugal Concentrators

Sartorius

October 23, 2002

A situation that is frequently encountered in life science research is a protein solution that is too dilute to allow further downstream ... Read Review

Becton Dickinson’s Sero-Fuge 2001 Centrifuge

BD Diagnostic System

October 30, 2002

The Becton Dickinson Sero-Fuge 2001 Centrifuge is a compact, single speed table-top centrifuge specifically designed to handle clinical ... Read Review

Eppendorf BioPhotometer from Brinkmann

Eppendorf

November 06, 2002

The Eppendorf BioPhotometer from Brinkmann significantly simplifies routine molecular biology laboratory work. It allows one to make fast ... Read Review

Lipofectamine 2000 Transfection Reagent from Invitrogen

Thermo Fisher Scientific

November 13, 2002

Lipofectamine 2000 Reagent is a cationic lipid-based transfection reagent designed to give extremely high transfection efficiencies and ... Read Review

BTX’s Genepaddle Electrodes

BTX

November 21, 2002

One of the tools that we have been using in our lab for this process is the Genepaddle Electrodes that have been recently developed by BTX. ... Read Review

MiniSpin® Personal Micro Centrifuge From Eppendorf

Eppendorf

December 04, 2002

The Mini Spin Centrifuge is another example of a good quality innovative product from this company. This personal centrifuge can accomodate ... Read Review

Revvity's Western Lightning Chemiluminescence Reagent Plus Kit

December 11, 2002

The use of non-radioactive chemiluminescent substrates to visualize proteins on a western blot makes the entire process both sensitive and ... Read Review

The HybriWell Sealing System from Grace Bio Labs

Vendor Placeholder

January 01, 2003

The HybriWell Sealing System from Grace Bio Labs has been designed to create a small incubation chamber on the surface of a microscope slide... Read Review

The E-Gel® Pre-cast Agarose Electrophoresis System from Invitrogen

Thermo Fisher Scientific

January 08, 2003

The E-Gel® Pre-cast Agarose Electrophoresis System by Invitrogen Life Technologies aims to simplify and improve DNA gel electrophoresis. ... Read Review

Mo Bio Laboratories’ UltraClean Endotoxin-Free Plasmid Prep Kit

Mo Bio Laboratories, Inc.

January 15, 2003

There are a large number of options available to researchers that need to perform plasmid preps using the bacterial strain E.coli. Because ... Read Review

5 PRIME Phase Lock Gel

Eppendorf

January 22, 2003

Phenol extraction of nucleic acids has always been an unpleasant element of any molecular biology protocol. The Phase Lock Gel (PLG) from ... Read Review

NucleoBond Plasmid Maxi Kit (Clontech, a Takara Bio Company)

January 29, 2003

There are a couple of things that our lab looks for when we buy plasmid purification kits. They should be fast, simple and reliable and ... Read Review

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