CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

What our customers say about Fluorotechnics products.

"I would recommend LavaBlue as a superior quantitative alternative to traditional CBB staining of 1D SDS-PAGE"
For a full transcript of this testimonial see www.fluorotechnics.com/content/documents/applimex.pdf.
Dr. Moreland Gibbs, Applimex Systems Pty Ltd.

"Ease of use, high throughput, sensitivity, and reproducibility are of crucial importance in our work... In view of the above advantages, as well as fast delivery, excellent customer service and technical support, Power3 Medical Products strongly recommends the use of Lava Purple dye from FLUOROTECHNICS for all similar technology platforms."
For a full transcript of this testimonial see www.fluorotechnics.com/content/documents/power3medical.pdf.
Dr. Essam A. Sheta, Power3 Medical Products, Texas, USA.

"The LavaPep kit was simple to use and yielded highly repeatable results. Both soluble and adsorbed peptides could be readily detected over several orders of magnitude. The reliability and ease of use made it an excellent choice for our application."
Eric J. Vanderploeg, MIT, USA.

"LAVAPURPLE from Fluorotechnics is a great product which shows extremely good compatibility with mass spectrometry. I have been using LAVAPURPLE for the last two years and some of the benefits of this stain include its high sensitivity, compatibility with other stains, its ease of disposal and its wide dynamic range for protein staining. I highly recommend that labs currently using sypro give LAVAPURPLE a try."
Aldrin V. Gomes, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

"We are very pleased with your product, LavaPurple, and recommend it highly. LavaPurple far surpasses SYPRO Ruby in speed of staining, image quality, and sequence coverage. The additional sequence coverage provided by LavaPurple can be critical in increasing the confidence of protein assignment. For all of its benefits, any lab using fluorescent-based gel staining should consider switching to LavaPurple."
For a full transcript of this testimonial see www.fluorotechnics.com/content/documents/testim_tracy_andacht.pdf.
Tracy Andacht, University of Georgia

"As a long-time user of Sypro Ruby I find that LavaPurple is as sensitive as Sypro Ruby and offers many more advantages. Among these are: no precipitation of the reagent on the gel, no safety concerns with disposal of reagent and no interference with mass spectrometry because of the reversible removal of the dye. Given that the fluorescent dyes offer added sensitivity in detection levels and added sensitivity in MALDI mass spectrometry over silver stain and Coomassie it is surprising that researchers still use these less than optimal reagents."
Barbara Cottrell, University of California San Diego.

"We have been able to resolve considerably more protein spots on gels (up to 80% more under certain circumstances) than using SYPRO Ruby. This should translate to the identification of new protein markers (for example, markers of cancer) that will facilitate the discovery of new diagnostics and therapeutics."
For a full transcript of this testimonial see http://www.fluorotechnics.com/testim_apaf.php.
Professor Mark Baker, Australian Proteomic Analysis Facility, Sydney, Australia.

"We also notice that the stained bands usually appear significantly sharper than when stained with silver or Sypro Ruby, and that the background is quite clear. Deep Purple stain does not appear to interfere with either the CCB staining or the MALDI-MS of trypsin peptides. I am happy to recommend this product for staining 1D and 2D gels."
For a full transcript of this testimonial see www.fluorotechnics.com/content/documents/Apollo.pdf.
Dr. Kate Liddell, Apollo Life Sciences, Sydney, Australia.

"Minomic has found that Deep Purple is more sensitive than Sypro Ruby and will pick up more protein spots than Sypro Ruby. Deep Purple has a number of other benefits in that it produces gels with very clean backgrounds and without the 'speckling' which is problematical with Sypro Ruby. Staining with Deep Purple is also much quicker and we do not have the heavy metal waste disposal problem associated with Sypro Ruby. Furthermore, Deep Purple can also be used for Blot Staining. This extra utility of the product makes it even more attractive as now we only need to buy one product to cover both gels and blots. More recently we have been using the protein quantification kit from FLUOROtechnics. This is a great kit that enables us to sensitively and simply determine protein concentration even in very complex samples."
For a full transcript of this testimonial see www.fluorotechnics.com/content/documents/minomic.pdf.
Dr. Brad Walsh, Minomic, Sydney, Australia.

"2D gels stained with Lava Purple show great stability compared to other fluorescent dyes. This stability will enable me to accurately excise my proteins of interest from my gels."
Dr. Sjouke Hoving, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

"From my experience LavaPep is a highly sensitive and accurate peptide quantitation tool and in some cases is also sensitive enough to detect changes in the quantity of free primary amino groups."
George Mihov, Max Planck institute, Germany.