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What is a Recombinant Antibody and Why is it Important?

Recombinant antibodies offer several key advantages compared to traditional antibodies. These includ...

Cell Process: How is cytotoxicity assessed?

Changes in cellular health in response to exogenous stimuli can provide keen insight into the biolog...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Jul 8, 2020

Seven Assays to Detect Apoptosis

Apoptosis is a highly regulated form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Jul 1, 2020

Control Your Western Blot: Loading Control Expression in Mouse Tissues

When it comes to mouse tissue samples, not all western blot (WB) loading control proteins are expres...
Supriya Singh, PhD Jun 24, 2020

Immunology: What are toll-like receptors and how do they invoke tumor tolerance?

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are transmembrane receptors that play a critical role in innate immune re...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Jun 10, 2020

Antibody Selection for Epitope Tagging: Insights from Myc-Tag Performance

Biological research is about expanding knowledge, so it's not uncommon for scientists to study prote...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD May 20, 2020

10 Must-have Markers for Senescence Research

Understanding when and why cell cycle arrest occurs is critical to many fields of research, includin...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD May 13, 2020

Cell Process - How is cell proliferation quantified?

The production of new cells through cellular proliferation impacts the development, growth, and main...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Apr 22, 2020

Cell Process: What is cell viability and how can it be measured?

The health of cells in culture is critical to the success of your experiments. Have you ever been ex...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Apr 15, 2020

Hallmarks of Validation - Complementary Strategies

Depending on the antigenic target being studied and the application being used, it may be advisable ...
Katie Crosby Apr 8, 2020

Hallmarks of Antibody Validation: Heterologous Strategy

For antigenic targets where expression of the protein is very low or unknown, the use of recombinant...
Katie Crosby Apr 1, 2020

Fibrosis: When Wound Healing Turns to Disease

Fibrosis is a disease that is characterized by scarring and hardening of tissues and organs. Fibrosi...
Susan Keezer, PhD Mar 25, 2020

Hallmarks of Validation - Multiple Antibody Strategy

A multiple antibody strategy is a powerful approach to antibody validation. One of the most common m...
Katie Crosby Mar 18, 2020

CiteAb Awards: Antibody Supplier of the Decade & Antibody Supplier Succeeding in Alzheimer's Research

We’re honored to win two CiteAb awards in 2020: Antibody Supplier of the Decade and Antibody Supplie...
Chris Sumner Mar 11, 2020

Hallmarks of Validation - Ranged Strategy

While a binary approach is one of the more desirable ways to evaluate antibody specificity, binary m...
Katie Crosby Feb 19, 2020

Immunology: How does the innate immune system work?

As we touched on in a previous blog post, the innate immune system is an important part of our body'...
April Lowell, PhD Feb 12, 2020

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