Blog Topic: Feature
How to Decide Whether to Upgrade Your Flow Cytometer
In this blog, we explore the key signs of ageing instrumentation, from downtime and software limitations to throughput, automation, and panel complexity.
- Jul 29, 2026
- 8 min read
- Richard Cuthbert, PhD
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
Beta Late Than Never: Delaying Diabetes with Teplizumab
In this blog, we explore the clinical significance of teplizumab for type 1 diabetes.
- Sep 08, 2025
- 3 min read
- Janielle Cuala
Bacterial Vampirism Causes Bloodlust in Pathogens
In this blog, we discuss bacterial vampirism, a phenomenon describing how certain pathogens are attracted to human blood.
- Oct 24, 2024
- 4 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Voices of Women in Science: Dr Helen Wright
As part of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Bio-Rad invites researchers to share their own experiences of being a woman in science. In this article, we speak to Dr Helen Wright about her career.
- Feb 06, 2024
- 4 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
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
The Marteilia Manifestation
In this blog, Rowan Cox, tells the story of the spread of the Marteilia parasite in cockles. This blog was awarded joint 2nd place in the 2022 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition.
- Mar 02, 2023
- 4 min read
- Rowan Cox
Compliance-Ready Flow Cytometry with the ZE5 Cell Analyzer
At Bio-Rad, we recognize the need for cutting-edge flow cytometry at all stages of the drug discovery process, so we have partnered with Xybion to provide a solution for compliance-ready flow cytometry with the ZE5 Cell Analyzer.
- Feb 01, 2023
- 3 min read
- Richard Cuthbert, PhD
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
The Importance of Antibody Validation
In this blog, we discuss the importance of antibody validation and highlight steps you can take to ensure you generate publication-quality data.
- Nov 10, 2021
- 5 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
An Introduction to Spectral Flow Cytometry
This blog highlights the basic principles of spectral flow cytometry and some of its advantages over conventional flow cytometry.
- May 08, 2021
- 4 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
How to Use Flow Cytometry to Measure Apoptosis: Part One
Learn about the different tools for studying apoptosis by flow cytometry and how to use them to get the best results.
- Feb 01, 2021
- 5 min read
- Katie Roberts, PhD
How CRISPR Revolutionized Science
This blog discusses the CRISPR technology that was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Jan 04, 2021
- 4 min read
- Katie Roberts, PhD
The Path to a Nobel Prize
In this blog, we examine why understanding the oxygen sensing mechanisms of cells was worthy of a Nobel Prize and interview Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe, one of the three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2019.
- Sep 16, 2020
- 5 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
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
- 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
ELISAs Do Little? Your Guide to ELISAs Part Two
In this blog, we take a look at sandwich and competitive ELISAs and highlight some of our top ELISA tips.
- Nov 14, 2019
- 3 min read
- Rachael Preston, PhD
WHO Decides What’s INN a Biologics Name?
This blog takes a look at the logic behind the names of monoclonal antibody drugs and implications of the more recent changes in the naming structure.
- Jun 13, 2019
- 5 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
Taking Control of Your Western Blotting Troubles
This blog discusses the three basic types of controls that should be included in a western blot experiment and provides a good starting point for troubleshooting any western blotting woes that you may encounter.
- May 11, 2019
- 4 min read
- Rachael Preston, PhD
Getting the Dose Right
This blog discusses therapeutic drug monitoring and why it is used for conditions such as IBD to ensure that treatment remains safe and effective.
- May 15, 2018
- 4 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
Why EGF R is an Attractive Target for Cancer Therapy
We examine the history of Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF R), the EGF R family and function along with how EGF R promotes cancer development.
- Jan 15, 2018
- 3 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
The possible autoimmune nature of Parkinson’s disease
Discover new studies describing the auto-immune mechanism associated with the development of Parkinson's Disease.
- Jul 20, 2017
- 2 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
Rats — An ideal animal model of human disease
Discover the features of rats that make them ideal animal models for scientific research and new discoveries generated using transgenic rat models.
- Jun 21, 2017
- 3 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
Killer bugs among us - the kissing bug and the Asian giant hornet
While insects are not the deadliest animals they can significantly impact human health. Learn about the killer bug and Asian giant hornet.
- Nov 07, 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
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
Journey to the antibody vial: the story of monoclonal antibodies in research
Join us as we take a walk down memory lane and tell the story of how monoclonal antibodies for research purposes came to be.
- Dec 08, 2015
- 3 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
Tailor-made just for you: A future with precision medicine
"There has been a paradigm shift in how the treatment of diseases is approached." This post describes how genome sequencing is revolutionizing the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
- Nov 03, 2015
- 3 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
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
Standardizing Antibody Validation
This blog post describes the current efforts and streams of thought for generating antibody validation standards to address the scientific reproducibility crisis
- Oct 20, 2015
- 2 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
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
Natural phosphatase inhibitors: the danger around us
This post describes how natural phosphatase inhibitors impact on human health.
- Sep 29, 2015
- 2 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
2022 Science Writing Competition
Find out who won the 2022 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition.
- Feb 08, 2023
- 1 min read
- Bio-Rad
Placenta or Pleasant-a? A Marvelously Alien Organ
In this guest blog, the 2021 Bio-Rad Science Writing Competition Winner, Keira Lee Rice, discusses the placenta.
- May 11, 2022
- 6 min read
- Keira Lee Rice
Genes, but Backwards: Grist for the Evolutionary Mill
Where do new genes come from? This guest blog by Md Hassan Uz-Zaman discusses this question and how our view on this has evolved over time.
- Apr 20, 2022
- 4 min read
- Md. Hassan Uz-Zaman
The Transcriptomic Swiss Army Knife— A-to-I RNA Editing
In this guest blog, Priyankaa Pitcheshwar, a PhD student working in the area of adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing in the context of cancer, tells us about the hopes of targeting this mechanism for disease treatment.
- Mar 18, 2021
- 4 min read
- Priyankaa Pitcheshwar
4 Ways to Organize Your Way to Better Science
This blog contains our top tips to help you be more organized and do the best possible science.
- Apr 20, 2020
- 4 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
The Transition from Academia to Industry
Bio-Rad's Flow Cytometry Research Associate, Sharon shares her experience of transitioning from academic research to working in an industry setting in this blog.
- Jan 31, 2020
- 4 min read
- Sharon Sanderson, PhD
A.dvancI.ng Scientific Research
This blog highlights how A.I technology is being used to shape scientific discoveries and research direction.
- Feb 28, 2019
- 3 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD