Product Reviews

The Chariot reagent by Active Motif is one such reagent for introducing proteins into cells. It is based on a short synthetic signaling ... Read Review

The BBD 6220 CO2 Incubator from Kendro has been designed to meet the stringent requirements of today’s cell and tissue culture experiments. ... Read Review

I recently had the occasion to purify the IgG fraction from a small volume of rabbit serum in order to generate a more concentrated solution... Read Review

The Barnstead/Thermolyne “Labquake” Shaker/Rotator (w/ bar and 32 clips) is an essential piece of equipment in our laboratory. It is used ... Read Review

The XCell SureLock Mini-cell, from Invitrogen, is a mini-vertical electrophoresis system, which was recently purchased by our lab. The ... Read Review

When our laboratory was in need of a microplate washer a couple years ago, I spent some time questioning colleagues for their experiences ... Read Review

The TransMessenger Transfection Reagent from Qiagen is designed for the efficient transfection of eukaryotic cells with RNA (including siRNA... Read Review

Although few people would argue that one of the most useful items in any research lab is the hand-held, adjustable volume pipette, it seems ... Read Review

There are a couple of things that our lab looks for when we buy plasmid purification kits. They should be fast, simple and reliable and ... Read Review

There are a large number of options available to researchers that need to perform plasmid preps using the bacterial strain E.coli. Because ... Read Review

The HybriWell Sealing System from Grace Bio Labs has been designed to create a small incubation chamber on the surface of a microscope slide... Read Review

The Mini Spin Centrifuge is another example of a good quality innovative product from this company. This personal centrifuge can accomodate ... Read Review

Lipofectamine 2000 Reagent is a cationic lipid-based transfection reagent designed to give extremely high transfection efficiencies and ... Read Review

The Becton Dickinson Sero-Fuge 2001 Centrifuge is a compact, single speed table-top centrifuge specifically designed to handle clinical ... Read Review

The Xcell II Blot module comes from Invitrogen, which now markets the Novex range of protein electrophoresis products. This blot module can... Read Review

In vivo gene delivery is usually achieved by one of two methods: viral vectors or electroporation. Recently our lab has been using the BTX ... Read Review

The MACS IFNg Secretion Assay Detection Kit is designed for the analysis of IFN-gamma (IFNg) secreting lymphocytes using flow cytometry. In... Read Review

Zymo Research has simplified my life with their DNA Clean & Concentrator-5 kit. Recently, I tried this kit for the first time and I was ... Read Review

Unfortunately, the shelf life of these pre-cast gels is rather short. The scientist who frequently needs to jump right into an ... Read Review

Recent discoveries have shown that double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) can silence the expression of a gene that is homologous to one of the strands... Read Review

The BD FACSCalibur System from BD Biosciences is a Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) consisting of a multiparameter, flexible system... Read Review

There are a wide variety of instruments on the market designed to agitate samples. These can be broken down into 3 categories according to ... Read Review

The G/100 columns isolate genomic DNA fragments ranging from 20 to 150 kilobase pairs (kbp) in size directly from whole blood, cultured ... Read Review

Superscript One-Step RT-PCR with Platinum Taq from Invitrogen is designed for convenient, one-tube RT-PCR. The kit consists of two main ... Read Review

Transcriptional activation and inactivation is intimately associated with the either the relaxed or taut conformation of chromatin structure... Read Review