Product Reviews

CDM HD, Chemically Defined Medium High Density Serum Replacement From FiberCell Systems, Inc. (catalog number LC5800) is for use in cell ... Read Review

The TE2000 Nikon microscope is one of the leading inverted microscopes on the market for live cell imaging. The newest version: the TE2000-E... Read Review

RNA-based analysis methods such as RT-PCR, microarray analysis and Northerns are now a mainstay application in many labs. In order to ... Read Review

While synthesis of short polypeptides is a relatively common service offered by more than a few specialized companies, the Protein ... Read Review

The TaqMan® MicroRNA (miRNA) Assays from Applied Biosystems were developed to detect and quantitatively measure mature miRNA levels in less ... Read Review

Expression of recombinant protein in E. coli can be an efficient and useful technique to produce large quantities of protein quickly. The ... Read Review

Recently, I investigated the possibility of a novel fusion protein in lung tumors. Since I had sequence information on one fusion partner, I... Read Review

Anyone who has ever worked with antibodies or other proteins has found themself in a situation where they have the protein they need to work... Read Review

BrdU, or 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine, is a synthetic analog of the nucleotide thymidine that is incorporated into a cell’s DNA when it is going ... Read Review

The ER Stress Monitoring Kit uses the naturally secreted Gaussia luciferase (Gluc) as a reporter. Other uses of the Gluc reporter include: ... Read Review

I have used Molecular Devices’ Vmax 96-well microplate readers since about the time of their inception in the mid to late-1980s. These ... Read Review

Small interfering siRNA (siRNA) is a class of 20-25 nucleotide double-stranded RNA molecules, which interfere with the expression of ... Read Review

Thermal cyclers are a pretty standard addition to any molecular biology lab. There are many companies out there offering several different ... Read Review

The AlphaImager EC has upgraded the way our lab looks at gels. We previously purchased two of the AlphaDigiDoc RT systems. We are happy with... Read Review

Purification of plasmids from bacteria is critical for a variety of molecular biology applications; however, traditional methods for plasmid... Read Review

Multi-dimensional imaging of live or fixed biological samples (cells, tissues, embryos, and even organisms) has become one of the most ... Read Review

The Cell Growth Determination Kit from Sigma is a colorimetric method for determining the number of viable cells in culture and is useful in... Read Review

The NanoDrop ND-8000 8-sample Spectrophotometer is a high throughput, full-spectrum (220-750 nm) spectrophotometer that can measure 8 ... Read Review

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) synthesizes custom DNA and RNA sequences to order. As a molecular biologist, I buy a lot of primers. ... Read Review

Protein studies play an important role in today’s life science research, especially in fields like proteomics and drug discovery. Protein ... Read Review

Imaging of biological specimens brings a wealth of information about cell structure and function; as such, it is one of the most used ... Read Review

In DNA, the most labile bond is the N-glycosil bond which binds the base (A, T, C or G) to the deoxyribose backbone. Hydrolysis of this bond... Read Review

PDQuest has been on the market for at least 6 years. To use the program, users first upload images to the software, and then PDQuest ... Read Review

The Bradford ULTRA Reagent is a quick Coomassie-binding method used for the detection and the quantification of protein in presence of up to... Read Review

This is Eppendorf’s big-brother qPCR platform, which in many ways is similar to the RealPlex². Like the RealPlex², this machine is small, ... Read Review