Polyacrylamide is a common reagent in the molecular biology lab as it is used in the formation of gels used to study proteins in techniques such as Western blotting and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE).

Non-specific bands and high background on westerns can be a major source of frustration at the bench. The tips below are designed to help clean up background on your blots.

Using Bioss B1R and B2R antibodies, researchers from the University of Houston, Texas, and Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, investigated whether antagonism of the bradykinin receptor B1R ameliorated lupus nephritis.

Bioss Antibodies is excited to be attending IMMUNOLOGY 2019, the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, in San Diego from May 9 - 13. Our team will be in the exhibit hall Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Booth 538.

A study in The Journal of Clinical Investigation by George C. Tskokos and his team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center demonstrates that Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase IV (CaMK4) is overexpressed in injured podocytes. This makes CaMK4 a promising therapeutic target for treatment of chronic kidney disease.

pIC, or polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid, is a synthetic double-stranded RNA molecule that affects the innate immune system — the cellular defense system that allows an organism to recognize and eliminate threats to the body. In this study, the authors suggest that pIC reprograms immune cells such as macrophages and natural killer cells, which subsequently prevents tumors from forming in their animal models.