Product Reviews

SYBR® Premix Ex Taq™ (Perfect Real Time) is a 2X concentration of premixed reagent which includes Takara’s Ex Taq™ HS and SYBR® Green I. The... Read Review

Designing an optimal set of primers for a difficult PCR target can sometimes feel like panning for gold. Lengthy or GC-rich sequences, or ... Read Review

The QuikChange® II XL Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit by Stratagene is used for in vitro site-directed mutagenesis of large targets. The kit ... Read Review

Monoclonal antibody production has always been a foreboding task. To maximize production, traditional methods often involve investing ... Read Review

I run a DNA Microarray Core Facility. We bought an Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer about six years ago for analysis of RNA and DNA quality; we have... Read Review

The cloning of a PCR-generated product, whether it has been amplified from cDNA or genomic DNA, is an essential step for many biologists. ... Read Review

This kit is used for the reverse transcription (RT) of total or poly(A) RNA to first-strand cDNA using random hexamers, oligo-dT, or gene-... Read Review

Western blotting is a basic technique, used routinely for the detection of specific proteins after separation with denaturing polyacrylamide... Read Review

The Nickel-Nitrilotriacetic Acid (Ni-NTA) Kit provides the components necessary for 6 purifications of histidine (his) -tagged proteins ... Read Review

Hybaid have given a new look to their long running Shake ‘n’ Stack hybridization oven range. Hybaid’s new Shake ‘n’ Stack Hybridization Oven... Read Review

Cell-based assays that use luciferase as a reporter are common in molecular biology. A number of kits are available to measure ... Read Review

The QIAprep PCR Purification Kit is intended to purify single or double stranded DNA fragments from PCR reactions. PCR fragments ranging in... Read Review

Assays for cell proliferation are widely used and many are available. We began using Invitrogen’s CyQUANT® NF Cell Proliferation Kit several... Read Review

The Alexa Fluor® 647 Protein Labeling Kit is designed to allow you to quickly and easily label a protein with Alexa 647. We recently used ... Read Review

The availability of quality antibodies is essential for all researchers in cell biology or molecular biology. However, antibodies are ... Read Review

Epicentre® BioTechnologies has produced a product called the BuccalAmp™ DNA Extraction Kit. This kit is a very simple and rapid way of ... Read Review

One of the earliest steps in the study of a single protein, or a complex mixture of proteins is the electrophoresis of the sample, under ... Read Review

About 6 months ago, our lab decided to move to real-time PCR system, also known as quantitative PCR (qPCR). Our research department has the ... Read Review

The QIAamp DNA Blood Mini Kit (Blood and Body Fluid Spin Protocol) is used to provide a fast and easy method for purification of total ... Read Review

The BigDye® Terminator v3.1 Cycle Sequencing Kit provides all the required reagents for a sequencing reaction in a pre-mixed format. All ... Read Review

The Cycletest™ Plus DNA Reagent Kit is very useful in detecting the distribution of cells within the different phases of cell cycle. It can ... Read Review

As the “gold-standard” for quantitative DNA analysis has become quantitative Real-Time PCR, the need for reliable, cost-effective methods of... Read Review

Biotinylation of proteins is one of the most common formats for creating biomolecules for use as detection reagents. Because it is such a ... Read Review

The PolyAttract® mRNA isolation kits from Promega are an affordable and easy-to-use system for isolating mRNA using a magnetic approach. ... Read Review

I work with expression microarrays. For some projects, I have to use very small amounts of RNA, and some of the RNA samples are of pure ... Read Review