How Come My Gel Bands Aren't that Discrete?
08/12/10 17:21 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Submitted by S. Pelech - Kinexus on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 17:21.
In an age when the average person in North America is subjected to over 5000 ads daily, most of us have learned to filter them out or view them with a high degree of cynicism. At Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, we have tested in-house about 3500 antibodies from over 25 different vendors, and more than 80% of these commercial antibodies are either impotent (i.e. weak), non-specific ("dirty") or both. One would not get this impression from viewing the images of immunoblots with these antibodies in most print and on-line sales catalogues. Since there really are no page restrictions in cyberspace, more data on the performance of products in diverse situations on company websites would be most appreciated by potential customers. Unfortunately, some infamous vendors don't even perform basic testing of their antibodies and leave it up to their customers to determine whether the product performs. Regretfully, such practices results in a lot of wasted time, money and effort.
Link to the original blog post.
In an age when the average person in North America is subjected to over 5000 ads daily, most of us have learned to filter them out or view them with a high degree of cynicism. At Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation, we have tested in-house about 3500 antibodies from over 25 different vendors, and more than 80% of these commercial antibodies are either impotent (i.e. weak), non-specific ("dirty") or both. One would not get this impression from viewing the images of immunoblots with these antibodies in most print and on-line sales catalogues. Since there really are no page restrictions in cyberspace, more data on the performance of products in diverse situations on company websites would be most appreciated by potential customers. Unfortunately, some infamous vendors don't even perform basic testing of their antibodies and leave it up to their customers to determine whether the product performs. Regretfully, such practices results in a lot of wasted time, money and effort.
Link to the original blog post.