Pharmas and biotechs struggle to screen large quantities of compounds, hoping to eliminate early those that would prove more destructive than beneficial. One avenue toward a successful resolution of ...

Explore luminescence screening assays for drug discovery, including luciferase and ATP assays. Learn the principles, formats, ...

Fluorescent dyes are tools used throughout biotechnology and medicine that offer a unique method of detecting and quantifying the presence of a target molecule, cell, or tissue within an even more ...

Scientists use multi-day live cell assays to monitor cell growth, viability, and cytotoxicity when evaluating the effects of drug treatment. However, maintaining consistent cell health over time ...

Modern bioassays tend to fall under three common modalities: colorimetric, luminometric or fluorometric. Colorimetric assays record the amount of light absorbed by a reporter compound. This absorbance ...

Conventional cell- and bead-based assays can be time-consuming, manual procedures providing only semi-quantitative data. Using high-content analysis systems to obtain object-based, quantitative data ...

Flow cytometry is a high throughput method of cell analysis that utilizes carefully designed flow systems to pass cells or other particles in a single file by a laser detector, allowing the size and ...

This article outlines the characteristics, advantages, and limitations of 96‑, 384‑, and 1536‑well plates for high-throughput ...