Stains Products & Reviews

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

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.

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

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

The new dropper format allows researchers to minimize exposure to Ethidium Bromide and offers a convenient, consistent method for all of your nucleic acid staining applications. The solutions are prepared from high purity grade Ethidium Bromide at a concentration of 0.636 mg/ml in ultra pure water. Each drop contains 25 µg of Ethidium Bromide and is perfectly suited for a 50 ml agarose gel. Simply add one drop of the Eth…

AMRESCO’s Blue-BANDit is a convenient alternative to traditional Coomassie Blue staining procedures. Environmentally friendly, this ready-to-use stain does not contain methanol and acetic acid and does not require hazardous solvents for destaining. The simple ”hands-off” staining/destaining procedure saves valuable time while reducing the handling of hazardous materials and solvent waste in your laboratory. ! Hands-Off!…

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…

Fluorescent pre-labelling of proteins in 1D SDS  PAGE, no more staining/washing

Detection of nucleic acids in agarose and acrylamide gels with low background.

SERVALightning SciDyes Set (Sci2, Sci3, Sci5) for 2D Difference Gel Electrophoresis (DIGE).

Alpha Laboratories offers a range of products to aid proteomic investigations from separation to sequencing along with the Phos-tag™ series specifically designed for analysis of protein phosphorylation. Products include: Automated protein sequencing chemicals and reagents Enzymes and inhibitors Mass spectrometry protein analysis Phos-tag™ Protein electrophoresis reagents Glycobiology Exosome Isolation Kit…

Never Wash or Destain Again

Safe Replacement for EtBr

Safe Replacement for EtBr

Simple, Safe, and Efficient Gel Pouring

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