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Vector Laboratories' blog provides a wealth of information on immunohistochemistry (IHC), immunofluorescence (IF), and related life science research topics.

The Curious Case of the Staining that Went Wrong

There’s nothing worse than toiling away all week to repeat an experiment only to have your staining turn up blank. You’re left scratching your head trying to figure out why you’ve got nothing. Recently, Vector... Read more

Scientist Spotlight: Shuying (Linda) Xu

Scientists facing a research problem often look for innovative ways to challenge the status quo to drive change. For Shuying (Linda) Xu, a third-year PhD candidate at Tufts University in Boston, that involves a focus... Read more

Improving IHC & IF Staining Results

Immunohistochemistry Immunofluorescence Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunofluorescence (IF) are widely used across the life sciences—in cancer research, immunology, neuroscience, cell biology, and histopathology—to help elucidate protein expression in cell and tissue specimens. And while these are... Read more

Scientist Spotlight – Carolyn Jones, PhD

Carolyn Jones embarked on her academic science career as a mature student in 1967, continues to work in the field of electron microscopy and lectin histochemistry, and describes herself as a microscopist and glycobiologist.

Scientist Spotlight – Nathan Martin

Nathan Martin studies developmental neurotoxicology, using a variety of techniques to examine the effects of persistent and emerging toxins on hundreds of zebrafish each week, often using live imaging to visualize their early development in... Read more

Scientist Spotlight – Natalie Chen

As Natalie Chen closes in on the end of her PhD studies in Molecular Cellular Integrative Physiology at UCLA focusing on the nuclear lamina meshwork, she has learned to hope for the best but also... Read more