Product Reviews

The reduced mutation frequency of PrimeStar™ is attributed to the enzyme’s strong exonuclease activity, resulting in 12 errors/250,000 bp. ... Read Review

Optimal sensitivity is an important goal when considering mass spectrometry for proteomic studies. Generally, electrospray ionization is a ... Read Review

Studies involving N-glycosylated proteins always include several enzymatic digestions of the glycan part of the molecule. This digestion is ... Read Review

Roche’s Cell Death Detection ELISAPLUS kit qualitatively and quantitatively detects the amount of cleaved DNA/histone complexes (nucleosomes... Read Review

Miltenyi Biotec offers a well known, wide range of reliable systems to perform human or mouse cell separations... Read Review

Our lab uses 2DGE to analyze proteins from a number of mouse cell lines using Invitrogen’s Zoom IPG Runner System... Read Review

The ABI 3730xl DNA Analyzer offers an alternative in the form of a fully automated system. The protocol involves a PCR reaction using a very... Read Review

The Seize X Immunoprecipitation Kit offers an excellent solution for immunopurifying proteins or complexes without co-elution of the ... Read Review

In our laboratory, we were looking for reliable reagents for Treg identification so that we could monitor these cells in a number of ... Read Review

The Gilson Pipetman Ultra Multichannel is a manual, 8 or 12-channel pipette with electronic display and volume adjustment for liquid ... Read Review

The principle behind multiplex assays depends on the use of uniquely colour-coded polystyrene beads (microspheres), that allows the ... Read Review

The fluorescence present in many tissues due to endogenous compounds, termed autofluorescence, introduces a confounding factor for ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Vikas Jain
Indian Institute of Science
Several software packages are available for data analysis, but in my experience, the best ... Read Review

Product Review Submitted by:
Vikas Jain
Indian Institute of Science
The Hermle refrigerated centrifuge line, manufactured by Progen Scientific ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Vikas Jain
Indian Institute of Science
As a part of a proteomics facility, our lab has procured a new LC-ESI-MS instrument from ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Jeffrey Perry
University of Michigan
Sypro Ruby Red (along with many other fluorescent dyes) allows researchers to visualize ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Hee Chul Lee, Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical School
Initially, I used Coomassie Blue for staining gels, but found that the ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Hee Chul Lee, Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical School
The Beckman Coulter Allegra X-12 Benchtop Centrifuge is used in our ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Hee Chul Lee, Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical School
The SYPRO Ruby Gel Stain is a fluorescent stain for detecting proteins ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Yelena Bykhovskaya PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Platinum Taq DNA Polymerase High Fidelity consistently gave us band intensity ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Nasser Al-Shanti, Ph.D.
Duke Manchester Metropolitan University
The Superarray Bioscience GEArray Q series provides a simple ... Read Review

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Scott Coutts
Monash University
The Stratalinker UV Crosslinker from Stratagene is a very compact device for irradiating samples ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Michael Campa, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center
Downstream applications utilizing PCR products or restriction digested DNA ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Scott Coutts
Department of Microbiology/Monash University
The GE Healthcare (formerly Amersham Biosciences) Multiphor II ... Read Review

Submitted by:
Lorelei Silverman
Department of Physiology/University of Toronto
Leica’s confocal microscope (Microsystems, Heidelberg) is a no... Read Review