Let’s say you want to get the ball rolling for studies on a new disease. You know you want to search for any important changes in methylation patterns; but with a whole genome worth of ground to cover, how do you decide where to look first? Active Motif now offers the MethylPath™ MeDIP-Seq Service that [...]
96 Reasons To Love Millipore’s Magna ChIP™ HT96 Kits
Posted April 4, 2012
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is the workhorse of the epigenetics world, like a penny-stock is to a Wall St. broker. So why run just one or two at a time? That’s so five years ago. Now that the EMD Millipore Magna ChIP™ HT96 kits are on the scene, you can churn out up to 96 ChIP [...]
ChIP and Discs: Porvair’s Chromatrap® ChIP Kits Break through the Noise
Posted March 22, 2012
Over the last decade, the ChIP process has seen more enhancements than the Orange County Housewives. Improved antibodies, beads, and fine-tuned buffers—they’ve all ChIP’d in to take this useful method primetime in labs all over the globe. But there’s always room for improvement. Turning Up the Pull Down for Small Sample ChIP Some of the [...]
Get Captivating Performance with Zymo’s Genome-wide 5-hmC Analysis Service
Posted November 29, 2011
The interest in 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) seems to be increasing faster than the national debt, but there still aren’t many tools available to aid scientists in understanding the 6th base, especially in a genome-wide context. Most current antibody and IP-based approaches are useful but can be a little difficult when applied to NGS. Fortunately, the methylation [...]
SIRTainty™ is Key to Trustworthy HDAC Detection
Posted October 26, 2011
There aren’t too many things that you can be sure about these days, but if you’re studying class III HDACs, aka sirtuins, then getting a little SIRTainty™ is now as easy as ordering a kit. The SIRTainty™ Class III HDAC Assay is a new assay, with novel patent pending technology, designed to measure sirtuin activity [...]
