Product Reviews

The RNeasy kit can purify total RNA from animal cells or tissues, bacteria and yeast and another similar kit is available for the extraction... Read Review

The Alexa Fluor dyes are a new series of fluorophores, developed by Molecular Probes, that are brighter and more photostable than ... Read Review

The Hoefer Semi-Dry Tranfer Unit does exactly what you think it would – it transfers proteins from SDS-PAGE gels onto membranes (... Read Review

The SPECTRAmax GEMINI XS Microplate Spectrofluorometer from Molecular Devices is a microplate reader capable of detecting signal from either... Read Review

All cells contain a variety of intracellular proteases. This becomes a problem when one wants to make cell extracts for protein isolation ... Read Review

The Caspase Fluorometric Substrate Set from BioVision is a reagent set designed to detect specific caspases by their enzymatic activities. ... Read Review

The Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) from BD Pharmingen is a flow cytometric based assay for the detection of human cytokines from cell ... Read Review

There is an amazing array of products available for protein expression and purification. Many of the larger companies produce complete ... Read Review

Even in the era of high-throughput genomics, occasionally there is the need to charactarize the expression profiles of a few genes instead ... Read Review

Electrophoresis is one of those tools that is central to almost everything you do in a lab. The ability to quickly load and analyze samples... Read Review

Over the past several months I have used Promega’s Wizard Plus SV Minipreps on an almost daily basis. During this period of time I ... Read Review

Some time ago I came across Qiagen’s OmniScript Reverse Transcriptase system to prepare CyDye labeled cDNA from total RNA (or mRNA) ... Read Review

When you perform thousands of PCR reactions a week, a reliable thermal cycler is an absolute necessity. For this reason, our laboratory ... Read Review

About 3 weeks ago I came across GE Healthcare Cyscribe kit to prepare CyDye labeled cDNAs from mRNA for microarray hybridization. I can ... Read Review

The Annexin V-FITC Apoptosis Detection Kit by Oncogene Research Products utilizes a well-established system to differentiate between ... Read Review

A reliable spectrophotometer is one of the most important pieces of equipment in any research laboratory. Everyone knows that ensuring your... Read Review

The processes of cellular proliferation and the progressive acquisition of a specialized phenotype are controlled by highly coordinated ... Read Review

The BD FastImmune Cytokine Dectection System is a method for detecting intracellular cytokine production using flow cytometry. The protocol... Read Review

The measurement of cell proliferation and turnover is generally limited by methodological problems. The fluorescein-derived dye CFDA SE ... Read Review

The Eclipse 800 Microscope is a premier member of Nikon’s advanced research microscope line. Although I generally use this microscope... Read Review

When it comes to purification of PCR fragments, nothing is more frustrating than losing your product due to unreliable gel extraction ... Read Review

The QIAquick nucleotide removal kit uses silica-gel membrane technology to purify DNA molecules from reaction samples. The kit contains ... Read Review

The Eppendorf Mastercycler Gradient is a PCR device suitable for several molecular biology techniques based on pcr amplification. The ... Read Review

There are a number of different products available to perform transfections, yet the efficiency of molecule delivery into the cell varies ... Read Review

Blotting equipment has become an invaluable tool in modern protein biochemistry. At this point there are two main types of transfer methods ... Read Review