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WesternSure Chemiluminescent Substrates Offer Sensitive Detection of HRP on Western Blots

Are you doing chemiluminescent Western blots? If so, you should check out the new LI-COR chemiluminescent substrates. WesternSure chemiluminescent reagents are optimized for use with the C-DiGit™ Blot Scanner and the Odyssey® Fc Imaging System. These new chemiluminescent substrates offer … Continue reading

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NEW! WesternSure™ Chemiluminescent Western Blotting Reagents from LI-COR®

Detect your Western Blots with Confidence! Use NEW! WesternSure™ Chemiluminescent Reagents from LI-COR! Now, in addition the great imaging systems for chemiluminescent Western blots, LI-COR Biosciences offers chemiluminescent Western blotting substrates and HRP-conjugated secondary antibodies for use in performing your … Continue reading

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Coming in 2013! LI-COR® C-DiGit™ System – Digital Film for Chemiluminescent Western Blot Imaging

Are you tired of waiting in line for the darkroom? Or spending your precious budget monies on all that film? OR having to do multiple exposures to get just the right image for publication? Then, you need DIGITAL FILM! But … Continue reading

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Western Blot Detection Methods: Fluorescence, Chemiluminescence, and Colorimetric?

Western blots can be detected with fluorescent, chemiluminescent, or colorimetric methods. What method do you use? Fluorescent detection: Fluorescent detection uses secondary antibodies labeled with fluorescent dyes, rather than enzymes. No substrates are needed. Enzymatic detection: Chemiluminescent and colorimetric methods … Continue reading

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NEW! COX IV Primary Antibody Offers Normalization for Low-Expressing Proteins

The COX IV primary antibody can be used for detection of COX IV by Western blot, or as a normalization antibody when performing two-color detection. Its target molecular weight is 17 kDa. Detection of this primary antibody can be achieved … Continue reading

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LI-COR® Odyssey® Imagers: The Standard for Quantitative Western Blotting

As a researcher, your goal is to efficiently present the most accurate data possible. For more than 30 years, traditional chemiluminescent detection with film has provided data that have been published by scientists worldwide. Over the past decade, LI-COR has … Continue reading

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Troubleshooting In-Gel Westerns – Where’s the Signal?

Okay, so you’re doing an in-gel western because you have a hard-to-transfer target (say, a glycoprotein). And you are using near-infrared fluorescence detection because it gets rid of inconsistencies due to transfer (and with an Odyssey it’s really fast and … Continue reading

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Digital Chemiluminescent Western Blots – Substrate Selection is Critical

So, you’ve selected your primary antibodies with care (see Know Thy Primary Antibody), and you’re using a great HRP-conjugated secondary antibodies. NOW – what about the chemiluminescent substrate? Yes, I know, there are tons of different substrates and vendors out … Continue reading

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Would you like to save at least 90 minutes the next time you do a Western blot?

The Quick Western Kit — IRDye® 680RD (P/N 926-68100) provides a universal detection reagent that can be combined with the primary antibody incubation step, eliminating the need for a secondary antibody incubation step. This kit works with a variety of … Continue reading

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Scientists using Quantitative Western blotting and Odyssey® Infrared Imagers

There are over 4000 peer-reviewed journal articles in which scientists have cited the use of LI-COR products and imaging systems for all types of research – from apoptosis, autophagy, and angiogenesis to RNAi studies, transcription factor assays, and virology – … Continue reading

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