Product Reviews

While siRNA technology has been around since the start of the decade, two key factors have remained constant in determining its usefulness ... Read Review

TaKaRa LA (Long and accurate) Taq™ is a thermostable DNA polymerase having 3'-5' exonuclease activity (proof reading activity) that is ... Read Review

DNA sequencing is an essential procedure in many fields of study, e.g. for determination of unknown sequences, checking the accuracy of DNA ... Read Review

We tested five of the Cellomics HCS Reagent Kits on our primary retinal cell culture to try to find the light-induced cell death pathway of ... Read Review

Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) are accepted markers for human forensic analysis and DNA fingerprinting. In bacterial systems, Variable Numbers ... Read Review

The PureLink™ Gel Extraction Kit from Invitrogen uses column based silica membranes to capture DNA from solubilized gel slices. DNA can be ... Read Review

The NanoDrop ND-1000 is a full-spectrum spectrophotometer (UV and visible spectrum, 220-750 nm) for measuring the absorbance of DNA, RNA, ... Read Review

Gel electrophoresis is a common method to separate proteins in polyacrylamide gels from mixtures of proteins or cell and tissue lysates. ... Read Review

While working at Purdue University, one of the kits I used for detection of Horseradish Peroxidase/Western blots was Pierce’s ECL Substrate.... Read Review

Invitrogen have added a new product, Lipofectamine™ LTX, to their extensive range of transfection products. Following on from other products... Read Review

Working in a biology or chemistry laboratory involves the handling of various volumes of liquid solutions. These can vary from many liters ... Read Review

For most cloning procedures, ligation reactions are conventionally performed at 16ºC overnight; this incubation can be significantly ... Read Review

Efficient and effective transfection reagents are essential for protein expression in eukaryotic cells. Recent years have seen a rapid ... Read Review

A common method used in almost every lab these days is transient transfection of cell lines followed by some form of output (Western blot, ... Read Review

Western blotting, a technique which is the “bread and butter” for the cancer biologist requires an efficient, reliable apparatus for the ... Read Review

To date, engineered E.coli has been used extensively as the cellular host for foreign protein expression due to its rapid growth rate, ... Read Review

The PureLink™ PCR Purification Kit from Invitrogen is similar to other PCR purification kits; in that it uses silica membranes to bind the ... Read Review

Western blotting is a technique used routinely by many laboratories for protein identification and analysis. The procedure involves many ... Read Review

The Nickel-Nitrilo triacetic acid (Ni-NTA) coupled to Sepharose CL-6B from Qiagen offers a quick and efficient method of protein ... Read Review

As we know, real-time PCR is an easy and straight forward method which can be used in many applications in basic research, molecular ... Read Review

Pierce’s iCON concentrators are easy to use and fast. They can be used for a number of purposes. Samples can be concentrated into smaller ... Read Review

Genetic reporters such as firefly luciferase are commonly used in science to study gene expression, promoter activity, intracellular signal ... Read Review

DAB (3,3’-diaminobenzidine) is the most commonly used amine substrate for histochemical detection of cell surface and intracellular ... Read Review

The specific binding of phosphoinositides by proteins is a main determinant in localizing those proteins to their site of function in ... Read Review

The SV Total RNA Isolation System was designed to purify intact total RNA from tissues, cultured cells and white blood cells with either a ... Read Review