Product Reviews

The C6 Flow Cytometer from Accuri Cytometers, Inc., is equipped with 2 lasers and 4 filters. Together with forward and side scatter, it can ... Read Review

Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique for the determination of the elemental composition of a sample or molecule. It is also ... Read Review

Stem cell research is one of the hot topics these days. However, in this filed, purely isolated cells are required; for example, pure ... Read Review

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification is a critical application in modern life sciences labs. PCR allows the rapid specific ... Read Review

In the modern molecular world almost every biology lab today finds itself working with plasmid DNA in some capacity. One of the simplest ... Read Review

The MagNa Pure LC DNA Isolation System is designed to isolate DNA with a high purity from mammalian whole blood, cells or cultured cells. ... Read Review

Cell imagining (both live and fixed) is a cornerstone technique in cellular studies and the biomedical field. Cameras are an increasingly... Read Review

The WST-1 Cell Proliferation Assay from Roche is a colorimetric assay that is based on the cleavage of a tetrazolium salt, MTS, by ... Read Review

The IVIS 200 series is an in vivo imaging system used for the real-time quantification of bioluminescent/fluorescent markers in vitro and in... Read Review

The Cell Lab QUANTA* Flow Cytometer from Beckman Coulter can simultaneously measure electronic volume, side scatter and three fluorescent ... Read Review

Let’s face it, cell separation can be tricky. For me, it was especially mysterious. I am a graduate student in a protein signaling lab. I... Read Review

Pure genomic DNA has numerous applications in molecular biology, including PCR and restriction digestion analysis. The Wizard® SV Genomic ... Read Review

Qiagen’s RNeasy Plant Mini RNA Extraction Kit is a widely used and generally robust kit which yields high quality RNA from a multitude of ... Read Review

SDS-PAGE (Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate-PolyAcylamide Gel Electrophoresis) is a technique for separating proteins according to their size. Many of... Read Review

As illustrated by its name, Bio-Rad Mini-PROTEAN II Multiscreen Apparatus is designed for screening. More specifically, it’s for screening ... Read Review

Archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) specimens represent a valuable resource of clinical specimens that are suitable for a ... Read Review

Targefect-RAW is a new reagent from Targeting Systems specifically designed for the transfection of the RAW 264.7 macrophage-like cell line.... Read Review

Miltenyi’s CD3+CD56+ NKT Cell Isolation Kit is used for magnetic separation of CD3+CD56+ NKT cells from human peripheral blood mononuclear ... Read Review

I worked in a pathology lab that was interested in isolating total RNA from human renal biopsy samples. These are small cores of tissues ... Read Review

The BMG LABTECH PHERAstar and POLARstar Omega plate readers are superbly designed instruments with a shared, simple user interface and ... Read Review

The Countess™ Automated Cell Counter from Invitrogen is a benchtop automated cell counter. It can perform cell counts as well as viability ... Read Review

Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue is a valuable source of clinical material for research purposes. Consequently, is it ... Read Review

The Pan T Cell Isolation Kit II is suitable for indirect isolation of T cells (CD3+CD8+ cytotoxic T cells and CD3+CD4+ T helper cells) from ... Read Review

One of the quality control procedures performed when developing monoclonal antibodies is to perform an assay to determine the isotype of the... Read Review

While developing an antibody array for analysis of biomarkers in serum samples, we needed to confirm the performance of the antibodies that ... Read Review