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The Agilent 7820 series gas chromatograph (GC) equipped with a flame photometric detector (FPD) provides high sensitivity, good linearity, and stability for the analysis of organophosphorus pesticides.

The primary function of this application note is to demonstrate automated methods for a HTS-ready universal methyltransferase activity assay.

In this study, the minichromosome maintenance (MCM) protein, MCM7, was selected as a model target gene to investigate the importance of appropriate reference gene selection and RNA sample quality as described by the MIQE guidelines.

The generation of high quality next generation sequencing data begins with libraries that have the desired insert size and proper adapter ligation.

Reporter-gene assays are used to study eukaryotic gene expression. Dual genetic reporters are commonly used in transient transfections of cultured cells to minimize experimental variability. Recently, Promega introduced a Dual-Glo Lucoferase assay system which replaced the outdated ‘flash’ assays used previously. Ensuring both genetic reporters have different substrate requirements enables them to be detected using a single reaction mixture.

The proteasome is a massive protein complex which can recognize and bind targeted proteins, and inject them into the central core where the proteins are successively degraded into short peptides. Whereas protein synthesis is well-understood after decades of study, major advances in our knowledge of protein degradation have occurred only in the last two decades.

This application note details how the SPECTROstar Nano absorbance reader measures nucleotides such as DNA in microplates, cuvettes and low volume samples with the BMG LABTECH’s LVis Plate.

Pgp expression has been linked to the effl ux of chemotherapeutic
drugs in human cancers leading to multidrug resistance. Pgp
activity can also result in low oral absorption and poor brain
penetration. Interaction of drugs with the Pgp may also cause
an increase in toxicity of co-administered compounds.

The detection of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) is an important tool for researchers in order to find mutations in DNA sequences. In this application note we describe a homogeneous fluorescence assay based on PCR. The Amplifluor® SNPs HT Genotyping System from Millipore was used to screen a number of samples with the help of the FLUOstar OPTIMA multidetection microplate reader from BMG LABTECH.

The Thermo Scientific KingFisher Flex magnetic particle processor is specifically designed to automate the time-consuming sample preparation of proteins, nucleic acids and cells in 96-well plate formats.