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.

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A CST Scientist's Take on the 2016 SfN Meeting

This year’s Society for Neuroscience (SfN) was held in beautiful San Diego, CA. More than 30,000 neu...
Richard Cho, PhD Dec 7, 2016

Immunofluorescence: The Questions to Ask Before Starting Your Next Experiment

Specificity, consistency, and optimized assay conditions are three key elements that help ensure rel...
Liana G Oct 19, 2016

The Reproducibility Crisis: An Open Letter from Our Chief Scientific Officer

A Message from our Chief Scientific Officer, Roberto Polakiewicz, Ph.D. The time is now for the scie...
Carolyn P Aug 10, 2016

Understanding the Proteome: An Introduction to Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics

After sequencing of the human genome was complete, it was time to roll up our sleeves and get starte...
Claire S Jun 15, 2016

CRISPR: Science Magazine’s 2015 Breakthrough of the Year

CRISPR, a nifty gene-editing tool, has swept the scientific community off its feet. It has a catchy ...
Liana G Mar 2, 2016

Q&A with a CST Product Scientist

The employees at Cell Signaling Technology are a unique group of hard working scientists, artists, n...
Chris Sumner Feb 24, 2016

From Discovery to Diagnostics: Translational Applications of PTM Proteomics

Part 1 and part 2 introduced mass spectrometry-based proteomic methods, like PTMScan® technology, fo...
Claire S Dec 9, 2015

Enriching for PTMs: Antibody-Based Strategies for Proteomics Analysis

In part one, Understanding the Proteome: An Introduction to Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics, we g...
Claire S Dec 2, 2015

POSTER | Tumor Immunology: Examining the Microenvironment

The immune system is tasked with distinguishing ‘self’ from ‘non-self’. Tumors can, quite often, be ...

Employee Volunteerism: Good for the Community, Good for Employee Health

Most people who have volunteered will agree that giving back to the community can make you feel good...
Tara White Oct 7, 2015

Five Steps to Publication-Worthy IF Images

A picture is worth a thousand words, or in the case of immunofluorescent (IF) imaging, a thousand pr...
Tara White Sep 23, 2015

Immunotherapy: Empowering Nature’s Anti-tumor Artillery - Part II

At your last visit we talked about the rapidly rising popularity of cancer immunotherapy and how it ...
Liana G Sep 9, 2015

History of the Monoclonal Antibody - Part I

Monoclonal antibodies are a pretty ubiquitous research tool. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find ...
Carolyn P Aug 26, 2015

The Cost of a Failed Western Blot

Thinking about lab expenses isn’t as enjoyable as investigating your favorite signaling pathway. How...
Claire S Aug 13, 2015

Intracellular Flow Cytometry in Action

Traditionally, flow cytometry has been used to identify distinct cell types within a heterogeneous p...
Liana G Aug 12, 2015

Need Better ChIP Results? Use Enzymatic Digestion

The success or failure of a chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiment is highly dependent on t...
Carolyn P Aug 5, 2015

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