Blog Topic: Cell Cycle
Zombie Slayers: Novel Therapeutics to Kill Senescent Cells in Disease
In this blog, we take a look at a new class of drugs, known as senolytics, that target so-called “zombie” cells and how this provides the potential to treat diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disease.
- Oct 24, 2023
- 4 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
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
3 Reasons to Use alamarBlue In Your Cell Proliferation Studies
In this blog, we will explain what alamarBlue is and how it works, and then explore three main benefits of this reagent.
- Nov 24, 2020
- 3 min read
- Katie Roberts, PhD
Top Tips for Troubleshooting Your BrdU Blues
This blog post focuses on BrdU and top tips and tricks for conducting a BrdU labeling experiment to help you troubleshoot any BrdU blues.
- Apr 05, 2020
- 4 min read
- Rachael Preston, PhD
Podcast: Studying Cell Proliferation
In this podcast, Bio-Rad reviews three popular methods for studying cell proliferation: using thymidine analogs, quantifying DNA content, and detecting markers.
- May 11, 2019
- 1 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
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
- Bio-Rad
Podcast: Studying SUMOylation
Listen to Bio-Rad’s top tips for studying SUMOylation in our podcast.
- Sep 02, 2018
- 1 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
Podcast: BrdU in Adult Neurogenesis Research
Learn Bio-Rad’s practical tips for controlling your BrdU experiments in our podcast.
- Sep 02, 2018
- 1 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
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
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
- Bio-Rad
Autophagy, and Neurodegeneration
This blog post highlights autophagy as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegeneration.
- Nov 11, 2016
- 2 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
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
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