Product Reviews

The Eppendorf Mastercycler Gradient is built around a single universal block that accommodates either 96-well plates, 96-0.2 ml PCR tubes or... Read Review

Many cell-based assays require the quantification of cell density in order to measure cytotoxicity or proliferation. Quantification can be ... Read Review

Antibodies by Design (AbD) is a relatively new, custom antibody service offered by the German company, Morphosys. This service relies on ... Read Review

Over the last few months I have been using Qdot streptavidin conjugates from Quantum Dot Corporation (QDC) for a variety of biophysical and ... Read Review

The BD FACSArray Bioanalyzer offers powerful, yet flexible, tools for the analysis of cellular and soluble proteins via a dual-array ... Read Review

The Äktapilot from GE Healthcare (formerly Amersham Biosciences) is an easy to use protein purification system, enabling protein production ... Read Review

The Heraeus Biofuge Pico is a small, inexpensive desktop centrifuge. Its compact size means that it can be placed almost anywhere in the ... Read Review

Ultrapure water (designated as such based on resistivity characteristics, as well as low particulate and organic carbon levels) is a ... Read Review

The ND-1000 from NanoDrop Technology is a computer-controlled spectrophotometer with a small footprint in the lab, designed to measure small... Read Review

We use the Spectra microplate reader in our lab to measure absorbance for both MTT and p24 ELISA assays. The Spectra microplate reader is ... Read Review

Promega’s TnT Quick Coupled Transcription/Translation System allows users to quickly determine whether a stable protein can be translated (... Read Review

The SuperSignal ELISA Femto Maximum Sensitivity Substrate from Pierce Biotechnology is an enhanced chemiluminescent substrate developed for ... Read Review

The ABI 7500 unit brings with it many improvements versus the ABI 5700. The most important improvement is the use of five emission filters ... Read Review

The Gelcode Blue Stain Reagent by Pierce is an affordable, ready-to-use method that effectively cuts down on the time involved for fixing, ... Read Review

PolyQuick custom antibody development service by Zymed Laboratories Inc. is a comprehensive service, which includes immunogen design and ... Read Review

Deoxyribonucleases (DNases) are abundant in nature and can potentially degrade DNA, destroying experimental data if contained within samples... Read Review

Real-Time PCR has become the “gold-standard” of DNA amplification reactions, allowing fast and accurate nucleic acid quantitation. The ... Read Review

The PCR process has evolved significantly from the days of switching tubes between water baths at different temperatures to amplify DNA. ... Read Review

The 5’RACE System, an acronym for “Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends”, from Invitrogen is designed to amplify the unknown 5’ end of a ... Read Review

TrypLE Express is a new, stable, trypsin-like enzyme from Invitrogen that can be stored either at room temperature (for several months) or ... Read Review

The Free Fatty Acids Half-Micro Test Kit from Roche is a colorimetric assay designed to quantify free fatty acids (FFA) in plasma and serum ... Read Review

The Caspase-3 Fluorometric Protease Assay Kit is a great tool for determining whether Caspase-3 is activated in a given experiment. Caspase-... Read Review

The Mem-PER Eurkayotic Membrane Protein Extraction Reagent Kit from Pierce Biotechnologies provides a highly effective two-step method to ... Read Review

The BrightStar Psoralen-Biotin Nonisotopic Labeling Kit provides an easy, efficient way to label nucleic acids used as probes for ... Read Review

EXFO manufacture a wide variety of products for the optical communications industry but also market products for lifesciences research. One... Read Review