Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., a global life science research and clinical diagnostics products company, launched its TrailBlazer Tag and TrailBlazer StarBright Dye Label Kits. The new kits are designed to offer a convenient method to label any antibody with one of Bio-Rad’s StarBright Dyes, for use in either flow cytometry or fluorescent western blot experiments.

The new two-kit system provides researchers access to Bio-Rad’s StarBright Blue and StarBright Violet Dyes, employing Bio-Rad’s SpyTag and SpyCatcher technology to conjugate a dye to an antibody of choice. This aims to enable the design and generation of custom, flexible high-plex panels for flow cytometry and easy multiplex integration for fluorescent western blots.

“The new TrailBlazer Tag and StarBright Dye Label Kits are designed for researchers who require greater flexibility in their multiplex experiments, providing multiple label color palette options and access to a select range of our unique StarBright Blue and StarBright Violet Dyes, with additional dyes to be added to the range in the near future,” said Hilary Mavor, Marketing Director, Life Science Group, Bio-Rad. “With an easy-to-follow protocol and minimal hands-on time, the kits offer a simple process, resulting in user-independent, consistent, high-quality conjugated antibodies.”