Blog Topic: Tips & Tricks
Stain-Free vs. No-Stain — Western Blotting Mythbusting
Discover the real differences between Stain-Free and No-Stain western blotting. Compare speed, sensitivity, workflow, and equipment to choose the best method.
- Jun 10, 2026
- 6 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Sample Preparation in Flow Cytometry — Tips & Tricks
In this blog, we provide tips and advice on generating a high-quality sample for flow cytometry.
- Feb 26, 2026
- 5 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
How to Build Complex Multicolor Flow Cytometry Panels
In this blog, we’ve compiled our top tips and steps to follow when designing multicolor flow cytometry panels.
- Jan 22, 2026
- 5 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Operation Titration: Tips for Titrating Your Antibodies
In this blog, we discuss best practices for titrating your antibodies for flow cytometry.
- Sep 05, 2024
- 4 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Top Tips for Presenting Your Flow Data
In this blog, we cover some key considerations to keep in mind when presenting your data, with a particular focus on the differences between an external and internal audience.
- Mar 11, 2024
- 5 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Tips for Writing Your Thesis
In this blog we’ve compiled our top tips to make your writing process as easy (or at least tolerable) as possible.
- Jun 27, 2023
- 6 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Getting Started in Science Writing and Communication
In this blog, Lab Crunches Editor, Kimberley Bryon-Dodd shares her journey from scientist to science communicator and her top tips for getting started in this field.
- Jun 09, 2022
- 5 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
Treat Them Right! Best Practices for Storing and Working with Antibodies
This blog discusses some best practices for storing and using your antibodies to get the most out of them in your experiments.
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min read
- Rachael Preston, PhD
The Training Bench: Workout Your Immunoprecipitation Fitness Goals
If your IP technique is something that you are trying to improve, this blog has advice to help you to get better immunoprecipitation results.
- Dec 16, 2021
- 6 min read
- Rachael Preston, PhD
6 Steps for Success with Multicolor Flow Cytometry
In this blog, we cover some key considerations for multicolor flow cytometry panel design, and highlight handy tools to help you get great results from the offset.
- Oct 06, 2021
- 5 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
How to Use Flow Cytometry to Measure Apoptosis: Part Two
Design robust experiments and troubleshoot existing protocols for measuring apoptosis by flow cytometry, by following the advice in this blog.
- Feb 19, 2021
- 4 min read
- Katie Roberts, PhD
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
Lessons from the Pandemic: How to Be a Good Lab Mate
In this guest blog, Sabine shares the research challenges caused by the pandemic and how her lab has implemented small changes to how they work for the benefit of the whole research group.
- Nov 13, 2020
- 6 min read
- Sabine Hahn
How to Pull-Down Your Target Protein and Interactors Successfully
This blog will take you through the basics of IP so you can get successful results from the outset.
- Nov 09, 2020
- 4 min read
- Rachael Preston, PhD
How to Avoid Cell Stress While Cell Sorting
This blog describes the forces that cells undergo during sorting, and practical steps you can take to minimize cell stress and get great results in your downstream applications, like RNA sequencing.
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min read
- Katie Roberts, PhD
9 Tips to Get Publication Ready Flow Plots
In this blog, our Flow Cytometry Research Associate shares 9 top tips to generate publication-worthy flow plots in a format that reviewers would like to see.
- Jun 10, 2020
- 6 min read
- Sharon Sanderson, PhD
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
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
A Guide to IHC-paraffin Success
This blog is written to help you perfect your IHC-paraffin technique. It focuses on some of the key stages so that you can achieve publication-quality results.
- Feb 20, 2020
- 5 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
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
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
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
“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
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