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Ten Tips to Light Up Your Immunofluorescence Experiments
In this blog, we have compiled our top ten tips to assist you with the selection of fluorophores for your imaging experiments.
- Nov 17, 2025
- 5 min read
- Bio-Rad
Is the Future of CAR T-Cell Therapy Off-the-Shelf? Genetic Engineering Could Be the Answer
In this blog, we discuss how CAR T cell-therapy could be used to treat autoimmune disease.
- Jun 30, 2025
- 5 min read
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Bringing the Fight to Motor Neuron Disease: Selectively Treating Diseased Cells
In this blog, we discuss a new approach to selectively targeting diseased cells in motor neuron disease.
- Jun 13, 2025
- 4 min read
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Understanding Aging: Can Neural Stem Cell Activation Slow the Aging Process?
In this blog, we explore the potential of neural stem cells to rejuvenate brain function and ameliorate disease.
- May 16, 2025
- 4 min read
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The Role of Regulatory T Cells in the Fight against Lung Cancer
In this blog, we discuss a recent paper studying the effect of depleting Tregs in lung cancer treatment.
- Apr 23, 2025
- 5 min read
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Bispecific Antibodies: A New-Age Cancer Immunotherapy to Battle Solid Tumors
In this blog, we discuss how bsAbs are gaining traction as a novel treatment strategy for NSCLC and showing great promise in combination therapy in clinical trials.
- Feb 21, 2025
- 4 min read
- Bio-Rad
Donanemab: A New Hope in the Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease
In this blog, we discuss the approval of donanemab, a monoclonal antibody designed to target and clear amyloid plaques in the brain, for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
- Sep 18, 2024
- 3 min read
- Bio-Rad
Erebosis: Fly Guts Die in Darkness
This blog discusses a recently discovered form of regulated cell death known as erebosis, found in the guts of fruit flies.
- Mar 22, 2023
- 4 min read
- Bio-Rad
2022 Science Writing Competition
Find out who won the 2022 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition.
- Feb 08, 2023
- 1 min read
- Bio-Rad
Dogs: Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing?
This blog takes a look at a study by Bergström et al. that examined the DNA from ancient wolves to help answer the origins of dogs from wolf populations.
- Dec 06, 2022
- 5 min read
- Bio-Rad
Zombie Viruses That Come Back From the Dead
This blog discusses viruses like herpes simplex and hepatitis B, that like a zombie return once you think they have been defeated.
- Oct 28, 2022
- 3 min read
- Bio-Rad
Genetically Engineered Pigs to Fight Disease
In this blog, we discuss Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRSS)-resistant pigs and how this could help alleviate the economic burden of porcine disease.
- Jan 07, 2022
- 3 min read
- Bio-Rad
2021 Science Writing Competition Results
Find out who won the 2021 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition.
- Jul 14, 2021
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
Is a Cure for HIV on the Horizon?
This blog discusses the CCR5 co-receptor and the role that it could play in an HIV cure, as well as the patients who appear to be in long-term remission.
- Jul 27, 2020
- 7 min read
- Bio-Rad
Science Writing Competition Results
The winners of the 2020 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition are revealed.
- Jul 07, 2020
- 2 min read
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Could a Monoclonal Antibody Cure COVID-19?
In this blog, we discuss the potential for a monoclonal antibody to neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Jun 17, 2020
- 6 min read
- Bio-Rad
The HisTORy behind the Discovery of Rapamycin
This blog tells the story of rapamycin’s discovery, identification of the mTOR signaling pathway, and highlights the important role that basic research plays in translational medicine.
- Mar 02, 2020
- 4 min read
- Bio-Rad
SUMOylation: a Heavyweight in the Regulation of Cell Cycle Progression and Cell Proliferation – Part One
This blog post discusses the discovery of SUMO and the importance of SUMOylation in cell cycle regulation and cellular proliferation.
- Sep 02, 2018
- 4 min read
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Th2A Cells — the Latest T Helper Cell Subset and its Role in Allergy
Th2A cells are a recently identified subset of T helper cells type 2 (Th2). This blog looks at the role of Th2A cells in allergy.
- May 16, 2018
- 2 min read
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SUMOylation: a Heavyweight in the Regulation of Cell Cycle Progression and Cell Proliferation – Part Two
We examine SUMOylation, the effect of their aberrant SUMOylation on signaling pathways and the potential of SUMO inhibitors in cancer therapy.
- Feb 13, 2018
- 3 min read
- Bio-Rad
The underlying reason beta cells fail to proliferate in “diabesity” uncovered
This blog describes scientific findings describing the mechanism behind the failure of beta cells to proliferate in patients with type 2 diabetes
- Aug 21, 2017
- 5 min read
- Bio-Rad
How to Identify Major Immune Cell Types by Their CD Marker Expression
Learn how a new tool from Bio-Rad simplifies knowing what markers to use to identify certain immune cell types.
- May 19, 2017
- 1 min read
- Bio-Rad
Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) in adult neurogenesis research - Part 2
Our second part of BrdU in adult neurogenesis research, describes “the dark side of BrdU” and how you can carefully control BrdU labeling experiments
- Apr 14, 2017
- 3 min read
- Bio-Rad
Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) in adult neurogenesis research - Part 1
The first of a two part series describing how BrdU revolutionized the field of neurogenesis.
- Apr 07, 2017
- 4 min read
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Bio-Rad named CiteAb Custom Antibody Supplier of the year!
We are excited to share that Bio-Rad was named as the CiteAb Custom Antibody Supplier of the year.
- Feb 02, 2017
- 1 min read
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Illuminating Biomedical Research—The Story of Fluorescent Proteins
Fluorescent proteins have expanded the capabilities of scientists, thus allowing observations that would not have been possible without them.
- Dec 07, 2016
- 4 min read
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Engineering recombinant inhibitory antibodies as research tools
Researchers partnered with Bio-Rad to engineer high affinity, highly specific inhibitor antibodies to the active site region of a WNV proteinase.
- Nov 18, 2016
- 2 min read
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The road to antibody validation standards
In this blog post we highlight some the current potholes on the road to reproducible antibodies.
- Oct 31, 2016
- 5 min read
- Bio-Rad
Applying best practices for characterizing critical reagents
This blog post defines critical reagents and best practices for their characterization.
- Sep 06, 2016
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
Deciding which ELISA Technique is Right for You
We describe the different types of ELISAs, the advantages and disadvantages of each and what to consider before choosing an ELISA technique.
- Jul 27, 2016
- 6 min read
- Bio-Rad
Cell Death by Apoptosis—The Journey of a Single Cell from Health to Death
This blog describes the triggers & mechanisms that lead to death by apoptosis, as well as assays for measuring apoptosis in your research.
- May 04, 2016
- 4 min read
- Bio-Rad
Biomarker assay development: CXCL10 in HCV infection
HuCAL technology was used to develop high specificity, high affinity antibodies to distinguish between protein isoforms with only minor differences.
- Mar 18, 2016
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
5 Easy Steps for Successful Flow Cytometry
In this blog post we simplify the Flow Cytometry process in five easy steps that will ensure successful results.
- Mar 08, 2016
- 8 min read
- Bio-Rad
High affinity antibodies for improved analysis of antibody drugs
This blog post provides insight on how to improve your assay sensitivity by selecting antibodies based on binding strength as well as affinity.
- Dec 17, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
How to Detect Your Target Protein or Protein Complex without Interfering IgG Chains
This blog post discusses TidyBlot and how it does not detect IgG heavy and light chains in your co-IP experiment.
- Dec 01, 2015
- 5 min read
- Bio-Rad
“Is it the antibody?” Tips for caring for your antibody for consistent results
With over 35 years of experience with antibodies, we offer our expert advice for taking care of your antibodies for consistent results.
- Nov 10, 2015
- 3 min read
- Bio-Rad
Immuno-MRM analyses: high-affinity recombinant antibody fragments
This blog post describes the applicability of recombinant antibody fragments from a naive antibody library for immuno-MRM based quantification.
- Oct 28, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
Are you likely to develop Alzheimer’s from grilled food?
This blog post describes how your choice of cooking method may increase your risk for developing a range of diseases, including Alzheimer's
- Oct 09, 2015
- 4 min read
- Bio-Rad
Measuring the inevitable divide - tools for assessing cell proliferation
This post describes crucial markers and useful markers to study aberrant cell proliferation.
- Sep 04, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
Tandem Dyes—The Power Couples of Flow Cytometry
This post describes what tandem dyes are and what to keep in mind when incorporating them into your flow cytometry panels.
- Aug 28, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
Inheriting mutant tumor suppressor genes increases your risk for cancer
This post describes how mutations in proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes account for tumorigenesis.
- Jul 29, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
To Control or Not to Control, that Is the Multicolor Flow Question…
This post describes what an isotype control is and how one could be beneficial in your multi-color flow cytometry experiments.
- Jul 06, 2015
- 3 min read
- Bio-Rad
Four virus serotypes…One Dengue vaccine?
Have a group of researchers really found the key to a cure to the currently incurable Dengue virus? Find out here...
- May 28, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
Intracellular flow cytometry - the good, the bad and the cytokines
This post describes a few key factors to consider when designing intracellular flow cytometry experiments.
- May 27, 2015
- 1 min read
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10 tips for designing a basic flow cytometry panel
This post provides flow cytometry novices with a basic overview of how to design a multi-color flow cytometry panel.
- May 08, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad