Professor Marco Torelli examines fluorescent nanomaterials for use in bioimaging applications current state-of-the-art materials, focusing on fluorescence brightness, photostability, and size, and relates them to emerging applications.

Multidimensional Application of Nonporous Silica Nanoparticles

With the development of more monodispersed and size-controlled particles, nonporous SiNPs are now actively being investigated as promising nanocarrier systems for delivering drugs to various human tissues, and as novel materials for smart plastics

How to Make and Use Percoll Gradients

To prepare a Percoll gradient, the osmolality of Percoll must be adjusted with saline or cell culture medium to make Percoll isotonic with physiological salt solutions.

Calcium Phosphate Transfection Kit Protocol

Calcium phosphate transfection is a common method for the introduction of DNA into eukaryotic cells. This protocol can be optimized for use with a wide variety of cell types.

Peptide Labeling

Chromogenic and fluorogenic derivatives are invaluable tools for biochemistry, having numerous applications in enzymology, protein chemistry, immunology and histochemistry.

Strep•Tag® II Fusion Tag Provides Rapid One-Step Affinity Purification

Strep•Tag® II/Strep•Tactin® combines high specificity with gentle elution to provide highly purified, potentially active, recombinant proteins or protein complexes.

Folic Acid Metabolism in Cancer

This issue of Biofiles reviews some of our newest and most innovative technologies and their specific applications toward cancer research. In preparing this issue of Biofiles, one is reminded how complex the disease of cancer is, and how difficult it

Applications of Percoll In Blood Cells

Data was compiled to assist the researcher in selecting references most likely to contain relevant information regarding use of Percoll for a particular cell or tissue type.

Sepharose High Performance: Purification with High Resolution

This page covers the use of Sepharose High Performance media for purification of proteins, peptides or oligonucleotides, when to use them, and with which systems.

Early Detection of Cardiotoxicity Biomarkers | SMC^® Technology

Cardiotoxicity biomarkers like cardiac troponin I (cTnI) in serum samples can be detected earlier with the ultrasensitive biomarker detection SMC® immunoassay platform. Discover the utility of Single Molecule Counting (SMC®) technology for the early assessment of heart muscle injury in

Biomedical Implant Devices Fabricated from Low Young’s Modulus Titanium Alloys Demonstrating High Mechanical Biocompatibility

Biomedical implants are essentially foreign substances within the human body that must survive many years’ exposure to demanding mechanical and physiological conditions. Despite these challenges, metal implants have been widely used to substitute for or rebuild hard tissues such as

NF-κB and Inflammation

Chronic inflammation is an underlying factor in the development and progression of many of the chronic diseases of aging, such as arthritis, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and cancer.

Whole Transcriptome Amplification of RNA from Low Cell-Number Samples

The efficacy of amplification of small quantities of total RNA with the Complete Whole Transcriptome Amplification Kit (WTA2) was examined in this study.

Materials for Clean H² Production from Bioethanol Reforming

Hydrogen is one of the most important resources in providing food, fuel, and chemical products for our everyday life. Sustainable catalytic hydrogen production from bioethanol has gained significant attention in recent years due to globally diminishing fossil fuel supplies, which

Absolute Quantification of Serum Proteome

Absolute Quantification (Protein-AQUA™™) is a targeted quantitative proteomics technique that exhibits robust efficacy and is being increasingly utilized for a wide variety of quantitative proteomics studies.

Ruthenium-based dyes for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) are 3rd generation solar cells combining the promise of high efficiency with low production costs.

Phosphatase Inhibitor Cocktail

The use of phosphatase inhibitors is critical for all types of phosphorylation studies. Compare phosphatase inhibitor cocktails to select the best one for your research.

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