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in vivo Imaging

info@biocompare.com — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT

When it comes to animal research, there's no getting around one simple fact: It's expensive. Between care, housing, and feeding, live animals can take a serious bite out of a researchers' bottom line. That's especially true if that researcher is...

Fluorescent Western Blotting

info@biocompare.com — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

It's been nearly 30 years since W. Neal Burnette first coined the term "Western blotting" to describe the electrophoretic transfer of protein gels onto nitrocellulose membranes¹, and in many ways the technique remains exactly the same. The gel transfer "sandwich" Burnette describes in detail, for instance, would be...

Incubators

info@biocompare.com — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Because of increases in stem cell research, the market for CO₂ incubators has become more interesting-and more discerning. Users are demanding increased...

Custom Oligos: Little Strings of Bases with Big Ambitions

info@biocompare.com — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Who would have thought that the humble nucleic acids described decades ago by Watson and Crick would one day be eyed as therapeutic or diagnostic agents world-wide? With customized modifications, today's oligonucleotides are doing more than probing blots in the lab. And in many cases, buying is cheaper than...

MicroRNA Expression Analysis

info@biocompare.com — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

If you want an inkling of how hot the microRNA field is, just look at miRBase. In April...

Apoptosis: New Tools to Tease Out Complex Pathways

info@biocompare.com — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Apoptosis - programmed cell death - is a cell's way of politely kicking the bucket when its time has come. A vital part of nearly all normal processes, apoptosis is so important to the

Bioprocess

info@biocompare.com — Mon, 24 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT

It's one thing to work in a research lab: cobbling funds together from research grants, conducting experiments in 96-well plates using stand-alone benchtop equipmentequipment, and meticulously tweaking reagent concentrations, incubation times, and column densities. But as R turns to D and it's time to scale up and start producing product, a host of other considerations come into play.

Isolation of Regulatory T Cells

info@biocompare.com — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Holding back the power of our immune systems is no small feat-and that's just what regulatory T cells (Tregs) do. Their ability to suppress unwanted immune responses makes them one of...

Optimizing PCR: Finding the Best Conditions for the Best Results

info@biocompare.com — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:00:00 GMT

It really is science, right-not magic? Finding the best conditions for your PCR protocols can be frustrating and time-consuming, but it is becoming...

Choosing Immunoassay Reagents

info@biocompare.com — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Since the immunoassay was first described more than half a century ago it has become a mainstay in clinical and research labs alike. Innovations in...