Product Reviews

Cordless pipetters are a common tool in many laboratories. A number of pipettes are available on the market today, but few boast as many ... Read Review

The M-PER extraction reagent has been used in our laboratory for the isolation of proteins from mammalian cells (e.g. hepatocytes/adherent ... Read Review

Luminescent reporter assays are becoming more common in the laboratory. It is not surprising that there has been an increase in the number ... Read Review

This instrument is designed for screening large numbers of samples in a single run. It’s a very compactly designed instrument. Power to the ... Read Review

Lipofectamine™ 2000 Reagent is a lipid-derived reagent designed to deliver exogenic nucleic acids (DNA and/or RNA) into eukaryotic cells, ... Read Review

In our laboratory we require up to 30 sequencing reactions each month. This number is too low to justify the purchase of a sequencing ... Read Review

Invitrogen’s T-REx™ System is a tetracycline regulated mammalian expression system. The system utilizes a repressor mechanism to block ... Read Review

The BioSpec-mini UV-Visible Spectrophotometer from Shimadzu is designed to meet the everyday needs of a molecular biology laboratory. This ... Read Review

The microarray format has emerged as a very powerful tool for the quantification or screening of DNA or protein samples. One of the key ... Read Review

Proteomics-based approaches are gathering momentum, with complete characterization of an organism’s ‘proteome’ being routinely carried out ... Read Review

Qiagen’s QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit is highly effective for extracting high purity, double-stranded DNA from either PCR reactions or ... Read Review

Our laboratory focuses on genetic and proteomic analysis of parasite-host cell interactions. As such, we rely heavily on the expression of ... Read Review

The reverse transcription of mRNA into cDNA is the first key step in the study of gene expression. Depending on the downstream application,... Read Review

We currently use Bio-Rad’s Mini-Protean III and Mini Trans-blot cell for running protein gels and for Western blotting. These two products ... Read Review

One of the most popular kits in a molecular biology lab, besides DNA miniprep kit, is a PCR purification kit. In our lab, we extensively use... Read Review

The QIAquick Gel Extraction Kit is intended for extraction of DNA fragments ranging in size from 70 bp to10 kb from agarose gels in TAE or ... Read Review

For running publication-quality gels, the protein samples loaded on the gels should ideally have identical running conditions. If the ... Read Review

The DynaPro™ Titan DLS instrument was bought in our department primarily for studying the multimeric status of different proteins. We ... Read Review

One of the major reasons I purchased the Tpersonal thermal cycler was because it was favorable in terms of efficiency and cost. Three ... Read Review

Qiagen’s MinElute Gel extraction Kit is very similar to their QIAquick Gel Extraction kit, however, it uses a slightly different column that... Read Review

After searching the market, I decided to purchase and work with Invitrogen’s S. cerevisiae yeast expression system which includes competent,... Read Review

I used the system to transfer proteins isolated from mouse lung cells. The cells were rich in Clara Cell cytosolic proteins. The study ... Read Review

The 2100 Bioanalyzer from Agilent is based on the microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip technology. This technology utilizes a network of channels and ... Read Review

Research of epigenetic mechanisms has great importance in the area of genetics and molecular biology. One of the most common epigenetic ... Read Review

The TRI Reagent® from Ambion is a ready-to-use reagent for the isolation of total RNA. It can also be used to simultaneously isolate RNA, ... Read Review