Friday 26 June 2015

BioStatus Newsletter June 2015

Smart Apps
Dead Cell Exclusion - making it easy


The multi-beam excitation of DRAQ7™ means you can easily get rid of dead cells from your flow cytometry analysis and sorting experiments WITHOUT compensation or using any of your fluorescence channels!!

Download the CYTO2014 poster reprint HERE

 
Featured Articles
What's exciting us at BioStatus


Trace the binding of DRAQ5™ labeled infective viral-like particles to target host cells

REF: Thwaites et al. J. Biol. Chem. (2014) 289: 30426-30442.

See our APPNOTE on live cell imaging with DRAQ5™
Key Techniques
Sorting living cells for high-resolution imaging


CyGEL™ makes it possible to sort living non-adherent cells onto slides while retaining their 3-D morphology. If you want, you can get them back afterwards too!! (Sinkora & Sinkorova. 2014 J Immunol 193: 5023-5032).

See the APPNOTE
Read All About Us
What our customers really think of BioStatus products


Read independent reviews here:

DRAQ5™ - proven far-red fluorescent DNA dye for LIVE or fixed cell analysis

DRAQ7™ - far-red fluorescent DNA dye the ONLY stains the nuclei of dead and permeabilised cells
CyGEL™ - a novel thermoreversible gel that is compatible with LIVE cells and organisms
CyGEL Sustain™ - a novel thermoreversible gel for extended imaging of LIVE cells and zebrafish embryos

 
Focus On...
Fluorescence Microscopy

BioStatus products are proven problem solvers for fluorescence microscopy. DRAQ5™ and CyTRAK Orange™ avoid the UV excitation needed for DAPI or Hoechst, so you don’t have to queue for a UV-microscope and they allow multi-colour microscopy. Plus, they can be used in live or fixed cells for maximum flexibility and assay transfer.
DRAQ7™, uniquely, makes it possible to monitor cell death in real-time and works with cells, microtissues, spheroids and explant cultures.

You can see the dedicated application notes and reference lists on each product’s main page using the links above.

 
New Product Spotlight
HypoxiTRAK™


HypoxiTRAK™ is a novel reporter of the hypoxic experience of individual cells.

The retained far-red fluorescence is proportional to the hypoxia and is dependent upon a true hypoxia phenotype.
HypoxiTRAK™ can be used in flow cytometry or fluorescence imaging.

Download the APPNOTE here.

 

Friday 12 June 2015

CYTO2015 Poster Picks DRAQ7 for CytoFLEX

At the CYTO 2015 Conference in Glasgow (June 26-30) a poster (B297, Tung et al.) describes DRAQ7 as the red-excited viability dye of choice on the Beckman Coulter CytoFLEX flow cytometer.

DRAQ7 enables your multi-colour experiments
DRAQ7 allows long-term, real time cell health monitoring
DRAQ7 comes straight out of the fridge - ready-to-use!

You can see independent customer reviews on DRAQ7 here:
https://t.co/MlJwdZEYuL (on SelectScience.net)