How to Light Up your Life – Tips and Tricks to Troubleshoot your Luciferase Assay.

How to Light Up your Life – Tips and Tricks to Troubleshoot your Luciferase Assay.

ByAnia Wronski

What is a luciferase assay and what is it useful for? A luciferase assay takes advantage of the innate bioluminescent properties some organisms exhibit, most notably the firefly. The firefly can convert luciferin to oxyluciferin in the presence of the enzyme luciferase to emit light. The most common scientific assays utilizing luciferase are reporter assays…

Through the Looking Glass: Picking the Right Microplate Reader

Through the Looking Glass: Picking the Right Microplate Reader

ByLiselle Bovell

You are finished with your super-arduous experiment. Now the fun part! To “read” your results with a microplate reader, but do you know which microplate reader to use? Or even that there are different types? Have no fear. I am here to help ye, scientific one! Read on for my pointers on picking the right…