Product Reviews

The BCA Protein Assay Kit provided by Pierce Biotechnology (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific), is a comprehensive and robust protein ... Read Review

My dissertation on Alzheimer's Disease depended on measurements of beta-amyloid levels from transgenic mouse brain homogenates. To measure ... Read Review

Protein estimation is one of the most basic and crucial experiments in biochemistry. Accurate estimation is necessary for assessing the ... Read Review

The assay analyzes the C-to-T mutation occurring at nucleotide 677 of the gene MTHFR (Methylen-tetra-hydro-pholate reductase) involved in ... Read Review

The MultiPROBE® II Plus (MP II) is a liquid handler from Revvity; it uses syringes and a peristaltic pump. To pipette liquid from a source ... Read Review

The collection of samples that will yield large amounts of good quality DNA can be difficult if blood samples are not used. Blood sampling ... Read Review

There is a big market for pipettes in the biological research community as they are as important as water for research in the biological ... Read Review

The 96-Well GeneAmp® PCR System 9700, or PCR 9700 as I will call it from now on, has been in use in our lab for at least 5 years now. It was... Read Review

Chemiluminescence is one of the most popular and widely used methods for detecting proteins on Western membranes. Chemiluminescence uses ... Read Review

The MicrobEnrich Kit from Ambion is used to remove human, mouse and rat RNA from a mix of mammalian and bacterial RNA. It uses a ... Read Review

The BCA Protein Assay Kit from Thermo Scientific Pierce (Product No. 23225) is a detergent-compatible, bicinchoninic acid formulation for ... Read Review

RNA interference (RNAi) is a process in which double-stranded short RNA fragments inhibit the expression of genes with complementary ... Read Review

The Infinite™ 200 series Quad-4 Monochromator™ microplate readers (spectrophotometers) manufactured by Tecan Group Ltd., Switzerland are ... Read Review

The vast majority of researchers in life sciences deal with protein solutions every day. Accurately determining the concentration of a ... Read Review

Purified recombinant proteins can be an extremely valuable commodity for any laboratory. Purified protein can be used as a substrate for ... Read Review

The PD-10 columns are made of chemically inert polypropylene material and filled with 8.5 mL of Sephadex-25 gel filtration material. The ... Read Review

Protein staining on membranes becomes critical when we are working with a system which may not give us equal loading with reference to an ... Read Review

The Amicon® Ultra-4 Centrifugal Filter Devices made by Millipore Corporation, USA are provided in packs of 8, 24 or 96 filter device units. ... Read Review

The Vectastain Elite ABC Kit has evolved from the ABC system and is more sensitive than the Vectastain ABC peroxidase system, but without an... Read Review

The Electro Mobility Shift Assay (EMSA) measures transcription factor binding to DNA. Observed differences in DNA binding allow the ... 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

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

One of the exceptional features of the HiSpeed Plasmid Maxi Kit from Qiagen is that it involves no centrifugation step (except to pellet the... Read Review

To detect secondary antibodies conjugated with HRP enzyme, a substrate needs to be added that can generate a recordable and quantitatively ... Read Review

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