Biotium, Chemicals
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Firefly luciferase is widely used as a reporter for studying gene regulation and function, and for pharmaceutical screening. Biotium’s Steady-Luc™ HTS assay system is a homogeneous firefly luciferase reporter gene assay kit with a half-life of about 3 hours for the quantification of…
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AccuOrange™ Protein Quantitation Kit is a highly sensitive fluorescence-based assay for quantitating purified protein samples in 96-well format (excitation/emission = 480/598 nm). The detection range of the assay is 0.1-15 ug/mL protein.
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6X DNA Loading Buffer (Blue) contains density agents for loading DNA samples on agarose or polyacrylamide gels, with two blue electrophoresis tracking dyes that run at approximately 1.5 kb and 200 bp in a 1% agarose gel. To use, mix 1 uL of 6X DNA Loading Buffer for every 5 uL DNA sample…
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Forget-Me-Not™ EvaGreen® qPCR Master Mix (2-Color Tracking) is a hot-start EvaGreen® dye-based master mix for use in real time PCR applications and DNA melt curve analysis. Forget-Me-Not™ features a unique combination of a master mix containing a low concentration of blue dye, plus a DNA template…
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The Viability/Cytotoxicity Assay Kit for Animal Live & Dead Cells provides green/red fluorescent staining of live and dead cells, respectively. The assay employs two probes that detect intracellular esterase activity in live cells and compromised plasma membrane integrity in dead cells.
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XTT Cell Viability Assay Kit
BiotiumXTT Cell Viability Assay Kit provides a simple method for determining live cell numbers using standard photometric microplate readers. Determination of live cell numbers is often used to assess the rate of cell proliferation and to screen cytotoxic agents.
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The Apoptosis & Necrosis Quantification Kit provides a convenient assay for quantifying apoptotic (green) and necrotic (red) cells within the same cell population by flow cytometry or fluorescence microscopy.
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Forget-Me-Not™ EvaGreen® qPCR Master Mix is a high performance, hot-start EvaGreen® dye-based master mix for use in real time PCR applications and DNA melt curve analysis. Forget-Me-Not™ master mix has a light blue master mix color which helps prevent pipetting mistakes, saving time and reagents.…
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ViaFluor® SE Cell Proliferation Kits use amine-reactive dyes to covalently label the cell cytoplasm, and are used to monitor cell division by flow cytometry. The dyes also can be used to stably label cells to image cell morphology, or to track cell populations in mixed co-culture experiments.…
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The CF® dye TUNEL Assay Apoptosis Detection Kit employs dUTP conjugated to the exceptionally bright and photostable fluorescent dyes, for single step fluorescent TUNEL labeling of fixed cells or tissues for analysis by fluorescence microscopy or flow cytometry.
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XTT
BiotiumXTT (2,3-Bis-(2-Methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium-5-carboxanilide, disodium salt) is a tetrazolium derivative used widely in cell viability and proliferation testing. The material is readily reduced in viable cells to a highly water-soluble orange colored product (λ= 475 nm).
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ATP-Glo™ Bioluminometric Cell Viability Assay offers a highly sensitive assay for quantifying ATP. The homogeneous assay procedure involves a single addition of ATP-Glo™ Detection Cocktail directly to cells cultured in a serum-supplemented medium.
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10X Fish Gelatin Blocking Agent
Biotium10X Fish Gelatin Blocking Agent is a solution of cold water fish skin gelatin that can be added to blocking buffers to minimize non-specific antibody binding in immunodetection procedures such as Western Blotting and immunostaining. Unlike BSA or milk, fish gelatin does not contain IgG or serum…
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Resazurin Cell Viability Assay offers a simple, rapid, reliable, sensitive, safe and cost-effective measurement of cell viability. This kit performs at least as well as other commercial resazurin-based cell proliferation assay kits such as alamarBlue® or CellTiter-Blue®.
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CellBrite™ Cytoplasmic Membrane Labeling Kits are designed to label cell cytoplasmic membranes with fluorescent dyes, available in blue, green, orange, and red. The labeling is stable and nontoxic, suitable for long-term tracking of cells.
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Hoechst 33258
BiotiumFor ease of use and safer handling, we offer both Hoechst 33258 and Hoechst 33342 dissolved in H2O at 10 mg/mL. Hoechst dyes are cell membrane-permeant, minor groove binding blue fluorescent DNA stains.
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The AccuGreen™ High Sensitivity dsDNA Quantitation Kit is designed for use with handheld fluorometers such as the Qubit® fluorometer from Thermo Fisher. The AccuGreen™ kit is specific for dsDNA, and can quantify DNA samples in the range of 0.01-10 ng/uL.
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PMA Dye
BiotiumPMA (propidium monoazide) is a high affinity photoreactive DNA binding dye invented by scientists at Biotium for viability PCR of bacteria and other microorganisms.
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Streptavidin Conjugates
BiotiumStreptavidin conjugates are prepared from high quality streptavidin biotin binding protein and Biotium’s signature bright and photostable fluorescent CF® dyes, and a selection of other labels.
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The kit allows simultaneous quantification of apoptotic (green), necrotic (red) and all cells (blue) within the same cell population by flow cytometry or fluorescence microscopy.
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This kit provides a two-color fluorescence staining on both live bacteria (green) and dead bacteria (red) using two probes DMAO and EthD-III.
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JC-1 Mitochondrial Membrane Potential Detection Kit is used to measure mitochondrial membrane potential changes in cells.
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This product is prepared by labeling highly cross-adsorbed goat anti-mouse IgG (H+L) with a selection of our bright and photostable CF® dyes and other labels. To minimize cross-reactivity, the antibody has been adsorbed against human, bovine, horse, rabbit, and swine serum.
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Lucifer Yellow Cadaverine
BiotiumLike Lucifer Yellow CH, Lucifer Yellow Cadaverine can be used as a fixable fluorescent tracer. In addition, the dye can be used to conjugate to carboxylic acid groups.
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RedDot™1 Far-Red Nuclear Stain
BiotiumRedDot™1 is a far-red cell membrane-permeable nuclear dye similar to Draq5™. The dye is ideal for specifically staining the nuclei of live cells.
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AccuClear® Ultra High Sensitivity dsDNA Quantitation Kit utilizes a novel, next-generation DNA binding dye for highly sensitive and accurate quantitation of purified dsDNA samples across a broad range of DNA concentrations. The assay is linear between 0.03 ng and 250 ng of dsDNA per assay in…
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NucView®488 and RedDot™2 Apoptosis/Necrosis Assay Kit contains NucView®488 Caspase-3 Substrate for detection of caspase-3/7 activity. The far-red dead-cell stain RedDot™2 is included for staining necrotic and late apoptotic cells that have compromised plasma membrane integrity.
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This product is prepared by labeling highly cross-adsorbed goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L) with a selection of our bright and photostable CF® dyes and other labels. To minimize cross-reactivity, the antibody has been adsorbed against human, mouse, and rat serum.
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These kits provides two apoptosis markers, our novel NucView® 488 Caspase-3 Substrate and Annexin V conjugated with your choice of red or far-red dye. The kit is used for studying two important apoptosis events, caspase-3 activation and phosphatidylserine (PS) translocation.