A Control for All Seasons
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 5, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
...critical control in biological experiments. Replicates can be technical or biological and are included to improve...such as bovine serum albumin.
Secondary antibodies can also react with endogenous antibodies naturally present...in mouse tissue. Such species-on-species staining can be partially addressed with stringent staining protocols...way to reduce, if not eliminate, the noise. This can be done either by modifying the blocking conditions...autofluorescence, also interferes with data interpretation and can be addressed with a label control. In a label control...allows you to detect dead or dying cells so that you can base your analysis on living cells only (for example...results, the signal from your target needs to be significantly higher than the background noise (Waters 2009...