Stains Products & Reviews

GelRed ® is an ultra sensitive, extremely stable and environmentally safe fluorescent nucleic acid dye designed to replace the highly toxic ethidium bromide (EB) for staining dsDNA, ssDNA or RNA in agarose gels or polyacrylamide gels. GelRed ® is far more sensitive than EB without requiring a destaining step.

Gel electrophoresis DNA detection

One Step gel staining in 15 minutes or less. InstantBlue is formulated ready for use. Gels can remain in the stain for weeks without concern. Only the proteins are stained, resulting in extremely well defined blue bands on a highly transparent background.InstantBlue is formulated ready to use. Gels can remain in stain for weeks without concern. Only proteins are stained resulting in extremely well defined blue bands on a high…

GelStar™ Nucleic Acid Gel Stain is a highly sensitive fluorescent stain for detecting both DNA and RNA. You can choose to either add GelStar™ Stain to your agarose solution prior to casting or to post stain your gels. GelStar™ Nucleic Acid Gel Stain exhibits exceptional signal-to-noise ratio with minimal background. Features: Maximum sensitivity, detect as little as 20 pg of dsDNA or 3 ng of RNA Versatile, use for aga…

SimplyBlue SafeStain is a ready-to-use, fast, sensitive, and safe Coomassie G-250 stain for visualizing protein bands on polyacrylamide gels.

The Pierce Silver Stain Kit is a rapid, ultra-sensitive and versatile silver stain system for protein detection in polyacrylamide gels, yielding consistent and reliable results with many 1D and 2D gel types

Safe Replacement for EtBr

DNA-selective, cell membrane-permeant, and nonfluorescent stains for DNA content analysis in living cells. 

10 g, Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 protein stain powder

10 g, Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 protein stain powder

Kit for staining protein-containing polyacrylamide gels, includes 1 L Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 staining solution and 2 x 1 L destaining solution

1 L, Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 staining solution

4 x 1 L, Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 staining solution

1 L, Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 destaining solution

4 x 1 L, Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 destaining solution

5 L, premixed staining solution, for polyacrylamide protein gels

Stain PAGE gels with Bio-Rad’s sensitive QC Colloidal Coomassie G-250 stain. Unique ready-to-use, non-hazardous formulation with flexible processing times.

Coomassie blue dyes are a family of dyes commonly used to stain proteins in SDS-PAGE gels. Bio-Rad offers Coomassie stains in three major formats.

Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 stain for use in protein gel staining.

Diamond™ Nucleic Acid Dye is a safe, sensitive fluorescent dye that binds to single-stranded DNA, double-stranded DNA and RNA, and can be used to stain and visualize nucleic acids in gels.   Diamond™ Nucleic Acid Dye is compatible with denaturing and native agarose and polyacrylamide gels and can be imaged with any standard imaging system. Significantly less mutagenic than traditional ethidium bromide, as proven by Ames…

200 ml, 1x solution, ready-to-use fluorescent gel stain

200 ml, total protein stain for use on PVDF or nitrocellulose membrane

480 ml, replacement component of the silver stain kit (#161-0443)

125 ml, negative protein stain and replacement component of the copper stain and destain kit (#161-0470)

20 ml, 10x Flamingo fluorescent gel stain solution