Fireflies Light the Way in the Battle Against Cancer
We love looking through published articles and seeing first-hand the amazing results that we are helping scientists achieve all around the world. And we are...
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How To Set Up Twitter for My Lab
It's time to make your lab more social media friendly and get on twitter. If you're trying to figure out how to set up a...
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Choosing a Graduate Program
If you are like me and your senior year is fast approaching - as are the deadlines to apply to graduate school - your plate...
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Neurotrophins
It is a still a commonly held belief that nerve damage can never be healed or repaired sufficiently to regain use. But in recent years...
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EGF, EGFRs and their Role in Cancer
Ever since the beginning of our awareness of growth factors in the early 1960’s by Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini, EGF (Epidermal Growth Factor) has...
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Maybe Dracula had it right? - Growth Factor in Blood of Young Mice Responsible for Heart Tissue Rejuvenation in Older Mice
In a remarkable paper published in the May 9th edition of Cell, two researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Richard R. Lee M.D. and...
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Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs)
The Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) were first discovered and named by Marshall Urist in 1965 as a mix of proteins that appeared to be responsible...
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FGF1 Subfamily (FGF1 and FGF2)
The FGF1 subfamily of Fibroblast Growth Factors was the first of the FGFs to be isolated and identified around 1975 by Gospodarowicz and company. This...
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Green Business is Good Business
Today is a great day to do something good for the environment, but we believe that it’s also important to consider how everyday business practices...
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Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFRs)
In nature, growth factors are only ever half of the equation. Receptors are proteins which are often found in the plasma membrane of a cell...
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Cytokines and Colony Stimulating Factors
In the ever-evolving world of growth factors, the Cytokine class can potentially encompass nearly every single growth factor we know. Cytokines are typically small, cell-signaling...
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Testing Growth Factors for Biological Activity
With our lineup of growth factors, we want to make sure that the products we are selling are the best possible combination of price and...
