The southwestern blot is so named as it encompasses elements of both the Southern and western blots. The technique involves the identification and characterization of DNA-binding proteins using DNA ...

Although speed is not of utmost importance in chemiluminescent Western blot imaging (as it usually demands extended exposure times), it can still be fundamental when dosing high-throughput ...

Western blots in cancer research. In a study published last year in Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment, researchers from the University of Cologne (Germany) demonstrated the potential ...

I joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021 as a neuroscience graduate student. That fall, I rotated in Graham Diering’s lab, focusing on the role of sleep on normal development ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Blot Service CRO, a biology contract research organization based in Austin, Texas, announced today that it is consolidating its years of expert ...

A new, easier method uses Stain-Free technology for total protein Western blot normalization. Benefits of Stain-Free Technology Stain-Free technology is a unique in-gel chemistry that is available ...

Once your Western blots produce a single band, you should confirm whether that band is your protein. Jensen says the best control is an siRNA knockdown or loading a knockout sample. Problem #1 ...

However, in recent years the reproducibility and quality of western blotting data has been increasingly scrutinized. Publications have developed more stringent review guidelines for western blot data, ...

Performing accurate quantitative data analysis from a western blot has been an ongoing challenge due to numerous factors that can introduce variability and affect results. Multiple products and ...

A classic laboratory technique, western blotting, has been used by researchers for decades, and it is nearly obsolete. “Biologists currently are stuck in a time warp—they basically use the ...