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Correct Sample Prep for ELISAs and Activity Assays

To get optimum results correct sample prep for ELISAs and activity assays it is important that samples are prepared correctly.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

An Overview of the Protocol for Red Cell Lysis

This article gives a brief description of the procedure for red cell lysis to eliminate red blood cells from flow cytometry samples.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

Antibody Detection in IHC by Chromogenic Substrates

Antibody detection in IHC is a method of detecting antigens in tissues or cells using antibodies to bind with them, and then visualizing the antibodies through chromogenic or fluorescent techniques.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

Explaining Immunostaining Protocols

Immunostaining or immunodetection, immunohistochemistry, IHC, is based upon the specific detection of an antigen, using an antibody to recognize it and then staining the resulting complex.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

Affinity Purification of Different Protein Types

Affinity purification is a chromatographic method used to isolate specific proteins and protein complexes from complex biochemical mixtures.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

Inhibitors and Promoters for Actin Polymerisation Research

Actin polymerisation research explores the dynamic processes during the growth of actin, via polymerization, and the breakdown of actin that both play significant roles in cellular mechanisms like migration and adhesion.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

Using a Plate Reader to Measure Cell Metabolism

There are several applications which measure cell metabolism through oxygen consumption or glycolytic pathway routing in living cells, but cannot accommodate special tools for the purpose.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

How is Voluntary Hand Movement Influenced by Neural Contributions?

Voluntary hand movement requires the precise exchange of information from the CNS and muscles, but how much do neural contributions impact this?

From TissueGnostics 29 Jan 2019

Immuno-Oncology: The Relationship Between the Immune System and Cancer

Immuno-oncology is a type of immunotherapy that involves re-engineering T-cells, to identify and kill cancer cells.

From Nanolive SA 3 Feb 2019

Analytical Highlight: Recent Advances in UHPLC

Recent advances in liquid chromatography mean that UHPLC is transforming quality control processes in the pharmaceutical industry.

From Pittcon 1 Feb 2019

Finding Appropriate Targeted Cancer Therapies

A company in Vienna hopes to created targeted cancer therapies, from analyzed cells as a revolution in healthcare diagnostics.

From TissueGnostics 22 Nov 2018

Measuring Micro Volumes in High Throughput Real-Time PCR

This article describes the increasing challenges in measuring micro volumes for high throughput real-time PCR.

From Analytik Jena US 23 Jan 2019

Extracting High Molecular Weight DNA Through Automation

This article describes how the difficult task of extracting high molecular weight DNA from high volume blood samples can be easily achieved with automation.

From Analytik Jena US 24 Jan 2019

A Guide to Assaying Cell Viability

Assaying cell viability depend on measuring current cell metabolism and enzyme activity. These are methods which correspond to the number of living cells within the population.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

A Short Overview of Hypoxia Markers

Hypoxia markers are cellular molecules which are expressed at greater levels when the cell or tissue is experiencing hypoxic conditions.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

Preparing the Sample for an IHC Experiment

Preparing the sample for an IHC experiment, is one of the most important precautions to ensure that staining during immunohistochemistry (IHC) is of good quality is proper preparation of the sample.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

IHC: How to Select a Primary Antibody and Optimize It

Immunohistochemistry must be performed using specific antibodies which bind to the epitope that is being studied. This article discusses this in brief, as well as other factors which help to select a primary antibody.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018

Western Blot Technique for detection of HIF-1 Alpha

This article describes the steps for the detection of HIF-1 alpha expression using a western blot technique. HIF-1 alpha is a protein that is expressed in all cells and regulates the response of cells to hypoxia.

From Abcam 9 Oct 2018