Friday, 29 May 2015

DRAQ probes on MACSQuant cytometers

Here are a few examples where DRAQ5 and DRAQ7 have been used on Miltenyi Biotec's MACSQuant flow cytometers:

DRAQ7 - for dead cell exclusion

McKimmie et al., Blood 2013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2012-04-425314

Chemokine uptake assay into CHO cells: Alexa-647 labeled CCL2 with DRAQ7 to exclude dead cells.

Ekert et al., PLoS One 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092248

Surface expression assay for EGFR & cMET comparing 2D and 3D cultured NSCLC: PE-labeled anti-HGF/cMET and anti-EGFR antibodies, PE quantification beads and DRAQ7 to exclude dead cells.

DRAQ5 - for cell cycle analysis

Canham et al., PloS One 2014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115379

Cell cycle analysis assay in pre-neoplastic cervical disease: PE-labeled TRA-1-60 cell surface stem cell marker and DRAQ5 were combined to analyse cell cycle dynamics in cancer stem cell-like populations relative to neoplasia grading.

Tuesday, 26 May 2015

MMC 2015, Manchester (June 29 - July 2)

BioStatus will exhibit at The Microscience Microscopy Congress (MMC) 2015

Find out how BioStatus products make better use of a core facilities' valuable resources and allow breakthrough applications in long-term, real-time assays, imaging of ex vivo micro-tissue environments and interfaces cell sorting and high-performance fluorescence microscopy. Find us at booth #95.

Exhibitor workshop: come along and hear about long-term cell health assays using DRAQ7. Workshop Room #4 on Wednesday July 1 at 13:15.

The congress is organised by the Royal Microscopical Society in association with the Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics.

Venue: Manchester Central Convention Complex
Exhibition dates: June 30 - July 2, 2015

More info:
http://www.mmc2015.org.uk

CYTO 2015 Glasgow, UK (June 26-30)

30th ISAC congress goes local!
We're delighted to be an exhibitor - come and find us at booth #202
Find out what's new from BioStatus.

Venue: SECC, Glasgow
Exhibition dates: 27-30 June, 2015

More info:
http://cytoconference.org/2015/Home.aspx



Friday, 22 May 2015

Independent product review - DRAQ7 delights!


Read the independent customer reviews on SelectScience: 
https://shar.es/1rzo7C

DRAQ7 - dead cell exclusion and gating - simple, sensitive, far-red! 

Try it now - our intro pack DR70250 is only $120.00 / £75.00 / €93.75