CST BLOG: Lab Expectations

The official blog of Cell Signaling Technology (CST), where we discuss what to expect from your time at the bench, share tips, tricks, and information.

4 Situations Where Flow Cytometry Might Be More Useful Than Western Blotting

Western blotting is used to detect proteins and analyze their expression using antibodies, but it do...
Chris Sumner Dec 4, 2019

Critical Considerations for Optimizing Imaging Mass Cytometry

Understanding the microenvironment of disease is critical for the success of targeted therapies. For...
Chris Sumner Nov 20, 2019

Tissue Clearing from a Microscope Enthusiast’s Perspective

Biological imaging data has massive potential in terms of complexity of experiment and richness of d...
Ginny Bain, PhD Oct 30, 2019

IMC: Endless Possibilities to Understand the Microenvironment of Disease

Understanding the microenvironment of disease is critical. Targeted cancer therapies may not be effe...

The Researcher's Guide to the Hallmarks of Cancer Research Targets

If you haven’t heard already, it’s CST’s 20th anniversary. Woohoo! You could say this year is kind o...
Chris Sumner Oct 9, 2019

20 Years of Research, Reagents, and Lasting Relationships

Today marks 20 years of impact in scientific research and community support. We haven't done this al...
Chris Sumner Oct 1, 2019

Dual Staining Mouse CD8 and FoxP3 with Confidence

For decades, immunohistochemistry (IHC) has been a powerful technique for the investigation and visu...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Sep 25, 2019

How to Prepare a ChIP-seq DNA Library

Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) is a flexible and powerful technique used by res...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Sep 18, 2019

Hallmarks of Cancer: Genome Instability and Mutation

Not all cancer cells are equal, they evolve in response to selective pressure driven by accumulation...
Chris Sumner Aug 28, 2019

Hallmarks of Cancer: Tumor-Promoting Inflammation

Cancer cells hijack inflammatory mechanisms to promote their own growth and survival. During a norma...
Chris Sumner Aug 21, 2019

Webinar | Linking Senescence with DNA Damage and the Cell Cycle

Gain insight into the processes by which senescent cells contribute to tumor suppression and age-rel...
Chris Sumner Aug 14, 2019

Visualize and Understand Protein Co-expression during EMT

Careful planning and the fine tuning of experimental protocols are key to ensuring clear, interpreta...
Tamar Aprahamian, PhD Aug 7, 2019

Taking Out the Mitochondria in Parkinson’s Disease

We’re proud to partner with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) to move Pa...
Richard Cho, PhD Jul 31, 2019

BAFfling Epigenetic Remodeling in Disease States

The massive amount of DNA in the human body is truly baffling. Stretched end to end, the DNA from a ...
Curtis Desilets Jul 24, 2019

Hallmarks of Cancer: Activation Invasion and Metastasis

Cancer cells invade local tissue and spread to distant sites via two distinct, but similar processes...
Chris Sumner Jul 17, 2019

Immunotherapy & CAR-T Cells

Our immune system has the ability to detect and fight infectious pathogens. It can also detect when ...
Chris Sumner Jul 10, 2019

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