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Life Science White Papers are in-depth articles aimed to educate and inform site visitors interested in life science research. Some of these papers are derived from sources where we have existing commercial relationships. Such articles are clearly labelled as sponsored content and are only accepted when the content is deemed to add value to the core editorial ethos of News Medical.

Using NGAL as a Biomarker to Assess or Identify Kidney Damage

NGAL can be used as a biomarker because patients with kidney damage exhibit detectable levels in urine and kidney samples prior to their serum creatinine levels surpassing healthy levels.

From Abcam 6 Jun 2019

Our Commitment to Providing Quality Imaging Reagents

Continuous testing of antibodies, kits or small molecules and inhibitors, is performed in order to provide consistent performance and relevant data.

From Abcam 6 Jun 2019

Mounting Media and Blocking Sera for Cell Imaging

Mounting media and sera for blocking are first-rate testing agents that can support the cell-imaging experiments.

From Abcam 6 Jun 2019

Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Research Highlights

Metabotropic glutamate receptors are exciting therapeutic targets due to their involvement in cardiovascular and neurological diseases, and their widespread expression.

From Abcam 6 Jun 2019

Detect Low-abundance Proteins with Biotinylated Antibodies

Biotin can amplify signals by forming complexes of large size with avidin or streptavidin. There are several techniques that use biotinylated antibodies for this purpose, which are dealt with in this article.

From Abcam 6 Jun 2019

Anti-Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) RabMAb Products

A process called PEGylation (covalent binding with polyethylene glycol, PEG) is frequently adopted to alter some characteristics of many proteins and drugs.

From Abcam 6 Jun 2019

What Makes Loading Controls Important?

What Makes Loading Controls Important? Loading controls are vital to the successful and correct interpretation of western blotting tests.

From Abcam 6 Jun 2019

Upregulation of Emigration Receptor S1P1 in Tumor Specific Regulatory T Cells in the Bone Marrow of Breast Cancer Patients

T regulatory cells, or Treg cells, are a subtype of CD4+ cells. They are responsible for inducing self-tolerance by a host of immune suppressive actions mediated by various immune cells, especially the autoreactive T effector cells.

From TissueGnostics 3 Jun 2019

Automation of Bacterial Transformation Processes

Traditionally done manually, high-throughput automation of bacterial transformation processes greatly improves robustness and reproducibility of experiments.

From Analytik Jena US 3 Jun 2019

Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Heavy-Labeled Proteins

Heavy-labeled proteins and material generation are for those who want to quantify human protein biomarkers through Mass Spectrometry (MS) analysis.

From ACROBiosystems 3 Jun 2019

The Most Cited Loading Control Antibody panels for Western Blot

Abcam’s panel of top-cited loading control antibody panels for western blot provide time savings and flexibility.

From Abcam 3 Jun 2019

Measuring Single CHO-KI Cells With Free Cytosolic Calcium Concentration

The protocol below provides information on how to measure free cytosolic calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in CHO-K1 cells using Fura-2 AM.

From Abcam 3 Jun 2019

A double-edged sword: reactive oxygen species and how they are detected

As a byproduct of natural metaboliosm of oxygen, reactive oxygen species are unstable molecules which contain the resulting oxygen.

From BMG LABTECH GmbH 3 Jun 2019

Investigating the Impact of the Gut Microbiome on Obesity

This article describes the use of Time Domain NMR (TD-NMR) to explore the role of the gut microbiome in obesity.

From Bruker BioSpin - NMR, EPR and Imaging 3 Jun 2019

Scoring and Digital Image Analysis of Estrogen Receptor β2 Immunohistochemistry in Prostate Cancer

Digital imaging technology has advanced as far as to allow automated scoring of immunohistochemistry (IHC) assays, often better than a pathologist could score visually. This is significant, given that visual scoring has been the method of choice so far for IHC staining quantification.

From TissueGnostics 29 May 2019