Kerafast was founded in 2011 to help scientists around the world easily access rare and unique reagents created by academic researchers. Since then, Kerafast has continued to pursue its mission to advance scientific research by facilitating access to over 3,000 reagents and shipping reagents to researchers in 66 countries, across 6 continents. In July 2021,
While pursuing my MSc. degree in Biotechnology at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India, I became fascinated with plant molecular genetics and biochemistry. I learned theoretical fundamentals in genetic engineering and decided to pursue these methodologies for making transgenic plants that could be beneficial for agriculture. Later, I was fortunate enough to be admitted
Before going to grad school in Durham, North Carolina, I was trying to figure out if research was for me or not. I worked in an academic lab as a research technician to study developmental genetics in mice. I found out very early that not everything goes as planned and experiments do not always work
A recent Science Direct publication highlights the development of generating SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid specific monoclonal antibodies to help supply new tools to specifically target SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent resulting in COVID-19. The study refers to nucleocapsid proteins, mBG86 and mBG17 antibody expression plasmids, available to purchase on our catalog, here. The plasmids are originally provided from
The development of antibiotics and therapeutics have been instrumental in the economic development that the world experiences today. Lifesaving therapeutics are threatened by the increasing prevalence of multi-drug resistant strains of bacteria, one of which includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The first-line antibiotic treatments for tuberculosis are rifampicin and isoniazid. MDR-TB has shown resistance to these
At Kerafast, we appreciate the many years of hard work and dedication professors, lab managers and senior researchers have devoted to research as well as to the scientific community. This quarter, we invite you to take a blast to the past and write a blog about your first research project. Have writer’s block? Feel free
According to the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers. This is primarily due to most patients being diagnosed at a later stage. Patients in this category have a 5-year survival rate of 5%. New findings from a study conducted by researchers at Queen Mary University
In a recent WIRED article highlights our partnership with The Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit aiming to produce animal protein alternatives. We are happy to help support, grow, and assist in the development of the cultured meat industry by providing the required materials essential to the field. This industry relies on the availability of
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India, in the group of Partho Sarothi Ray, have demonstrated that immune cells can sense cell density and “talk” to each other by regulating their function and their response to inflammatory stimuli. In a recent research article in the Journal of Immunology, the researchers
Dark fluorescence quenchers are non-fluorescent dyes that can modulate the fluorescence signal of an appropriate fluorophore donor in a distance-dependent manner. Dark quenchers are often used in dual-label probes, which combine a reporter dye with a quencher moiety. Typically, these probes may exist in two conformations differing in their fluorescence properties: a ‘closed’ form in