Product Reviews

Altogen’s A549 Transfection Reagent is an advanced formulation of polymer, lipid, and dendrimer-based reagents which is designed to give ... Read Review

Transfection reagents are big business. The ability to express exogenous genes within eukaryotic cells is very popular and companies are ... Read Review

For research requiring large amounts of plasmid DNA, kits such as the Wizard® Plus Midiprep DNA Purification System are available. The ... Read Review

The QIAamp® Viral RNA Mini Kit is used for isolation of viral RNA which can then be utilized in amplification technologies, for example, ... Read Review

DNA extraction from tissues and subsequent PCR is something most biology labs do on a routine basis. Standard protocols call for DNA lysis ... Read Review

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small noncoding RNAs (20 - 23 nucleotides) that negatively regulate posttranscriptional gene expression by... Read Review

Corona treatment of materials has a wide variety of uses in the industrial world. Uses include the removal or addition of charge from large... Read Review

Our laboratory uses the Zeiss LSM 510 laser scanning confocal microscope which employs krypton-argon, argon, and helium-neon lasers (488, ... Read Review

Any DNA that has been cloned requires a sequencing step for confirmation. Though this can now be performed using sequencers and ... Read Review

The PCR DIG Probe Synthesis Kit is a non-radioactive system using digoxigenin (DIG), a steroid hapten, to label DNA probes for Southern ... Read Review

Cytokine secretion from T cells in response to antigen stimulation can be detected by measuring bulk cytokine production using an enzyme-... Read Review

Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) assays are a fast, easy and accurate method of measuring gene promoter activity in vitro. As the CAT... Read Review

After comparing instruments from several companies, our choice was, once again, a Shimadzu. This time around, we opted for the BioSpec-mini,... Read Review

The analysis of data obtained from microarray assays is an often problematic and tedious task. The reasons for the difficulty in analyzing ... Read Review

The µMACS technology from Miltenyi Biotec uses super-paramagnetic microbeads, which are conjugated to tag-specific antibodies in order to ... Read Review

RNA interference (RNAi) is a promising new gene silencing technology of great use in studying the functions of genes and understanding the ... Read Review

Alexa® Dyes from Invitrogen (Molecular Probes) are the leader in the field. These dyes are high quality, exceptionally bright, photostable, ... Read Review

It has always been a hassle to obtain pure RNA from tissue or cultured cells. RNA is frequently degraded by ubiquitous RNases which are hard... Read Review

Most any molecular biology lab that deals with DNA requires the use of agarose gels to isolate and purify DNA products. Especially ... Read Review

Beckman Coulter’s Epics XL-MCL™ Flow Cytometer is presently used in our lab on a daily basis. As a busy reference flow laboratory, we ... Read Review

The CD8+ T Cell Isolation Kit II from Miltenyi Biotec is an indirect magnetic labeling system for the isolation of untouched human CD8+ T ... Read Review

In this review, a product series for biomolecular separation by centrifugation from Pall Life Sciences is to be discussed. Different ... Read Review

CyDye DIGE Fluor minimal dyes are the basis of the two dimensional-differential in gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) technology. All three CyDye... Read Review

Pierce’s CarboLink Coupling Gel is an affinity support for immobilizing glycoproteins through oxidized sugar groups. It is ideal for ... Read Review

The Pierce Coomassie Protein Assay Kit is used in our laboratory for quick quantification of total protein for prepared extracts from C. ... Read Review