Welcome to Sigma BioBlogs.
Bio begins with every one of us, and with each biologist who is out there working today.
Our goal in blogging is to get Bioinformation out to biologists quickly and easily, whether it’s news about our products or the latest work of your fellow biologists.
To achieve this goal, we plan to blog on the following subjects: Scientist biographies - how their bio journey began and what they are doing today as a result. We’ll also be blogging on how to get the most from our products with expertise provided by our Technical Service team. Plus we’ll be keeping you up to date with the latest application information with tips and tricks from our experts and we’ll keep our spotlight firmly focused on the latest technology.
Of course, there may be other topics that you would like to see discussed and debated here, so if you have any suggestions or questions please feel free to get in touch with us via [email protected]
August, 13 2010 @ 3:34 pm by BioBlogs
Maybe you’re not laughing because you aren’t a scientist?
The Where Bio Begins/Sigma Life Science marketing department is housed along with Sigma’s Research and Development scientists. Every day, we have the pleasure of interacting with them. We often find common ground, even though they carry their tubes of DNA, proteins, and such from lab to lab, and all I ever get to carry around [...]
August, 6 2010 @ 4:42 pm by BioBlogs
Biomolecules in the News – Spotlight on Sirt-1
I had an idea for my next blog entry. Hmmm. What was the topic?
Who doesn’t pause to ask themselves that question only to find that they do not have the answer? With information coming at us from multiple platforms regardless of our location, it is a challenge to keep it all in our [...]
July, 30 2010 @ 4:38 pm by BioBlogs
Look at your genes, proteins, and molecules through clouds…
When we upgraded our Your Favorite Gene site, we added a full PubMed search, and made keyword relationships more obvious by adding a tag cloud.
July, 22 2010 @ 2:20 pm by BioBlogs
Beverly Chilton, PhD: Molecular biologist, and lifelong science fan
Dr. Beverly Chilton is a passionate scientist who has 25 years of experience under her belt at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. She signed on for 3-5 years… but time flies when you are studying hormone regulation in the female reproductive system.
We met after her second day in the Targeted Genome Editing Workshop when [...]
July, 16 2010 @ 3:31 pm by BioBlogs
Antibody-based Biomarker Discovery in Cancer Research
We recently showed you where to find the wealth of IHC data available from Human Protein Atlas Web portal. Now you can listen to Dr. Fredrik Ponten, the Vice-program Director of Human Protein Atlas Project describe an antibody-based proteomics strategy to identify cancer biomarkers using Human Protein Atlas data. Just click on our latest webinar, [...]
July, 9 2010 @ 2:44 pm by BioBlogs
What you should know about Locked Nucleic Acids®
Are you in need of a qPCR probe? Do you have complex targets and very small gene fragments?
With Locked Nucleic Acids (LNA®), you CAN use a shorter probe in your assay and expect greater sensitivity and discrimination for your gene target.
Dr. Ashley Heath of the Sigma Custom Products Technical Service team tells us below [...]
July, 1 2010 @ 4:28 pm by BioBlogs
Online data treats- Human Protein Atlas
Sigma Biobloggers are web-nerdy. When we saw over 500 IHC images available on every single antibody Human Protein Atlas investigates…we went on super WEB NERD ALERT.
HPA publishes the Immunohistochemistry data profiled across normal tissue, cancer cells and cell lines for free to everyone.
Then Sigma Life Sciences works with Atlas Antibodies to make Prestige Antibodies® available [...]
June, 23 2010 @ 5:36 pm by BioBlogs
What? You want to do this the hard way?
Since we are a bit ZFN crazy right now with the airing of our ZFN Webinars, we wanted to feature the newest product based on the zinc finger nuclease technology, the CompoZr® Targeted Integration Kit (AAVS1).
Of course, you may have reasons why this kit isn’t for you so we think it is time for a [...]
June, 3 2010 @ 5:04 pm by BioBlogs
Gravitational biology, NASA, and Ohio University
Sarah Wyatt and I have something in common. Everyone from our sleepy little towns thought we were smart enough to be a doctor or a nurse. Now they just shake their heads, as she is a gravitational biologist who has studied plants for NASA, and I get to interview her and then post it to [...]
May, 24 2010 @ 12:19 pm by BioBlogs
Proteomic Peril? American Society for Mass Spectrometry
In “Proteomic Peril”, horror writer Natalie L. Sin envisions walking corpses holding severed heads. Security guards not looking at badges, but rather, at the possibility of eating BRAINS! (this blogger had to turn away more than once while reading).
Proteomic Peril was inspired by Natalie’s time waiting for her husband at the ASMS (American Society for [...]