Ah, the notorious western blot: we meet again. So useful, yet so finicky to design and optimize. Today we’ll cover the normalization and loading controls needed for relative quantification of a western blot — and why you might want to be careful relying on so called ...
Western blots can be tricky to get right. If you’ve thoughtfully done the technical design of your blot, but are still finding yourself having issues, you’re in the right place! In this post, we’ll talk about western blot optimization and troubleshooting.
If you’ve ever run a western blot, or thought about running one, you’ll know there’s a lot of choices to make when designing the experiment. What detection method? What membrane? What should you block with?
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Running a Western blot can be a bit daunting for first-timers. That's why we gave our written protocol a video companion! Follow along as Addgenie Meghan and Abi run a Western blot and share tips for this tricky application.
You’ve gotten the plasmid encoding your protein of interest from Addgene, transfected it into your target cells, now what? How can you tell if the protein you are so keen to study is expressing in your cells? Immunoblotting or simply the western blot, or western, is one of the ...