"Great results and easy use."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       See different nuclei cells types

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.0

Comments: The react is easy to use and very effective.  We can use it for different cells types and in different conditions.

Name: Marimar Encabo

Organisation: University of Zaragoza 

"Recommended"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Staining Nucleic Acids

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          3.7

Comments: We used DRAQ5 for staining of nuclear DNA - and realized that it also nicely stains RNA in Dictyostelium cells, which, for our purpose, was beneficial.

Name: Christian Hammann

Organisation: Jacobs University 

"DRAQ5 is vital to analyze each sample I process"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Flow cytometry

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.0

Comments: I use DRAQ5 in order to separate living cells of dead cells in a suspension of brain tumor cells and to calculate the cellular DNA content. I use 3 ul of DRAQ5 3 minutes before the acquisition, therefore I spend several vials of DRAQ5 in a short time and it is an expensive dye.

Name: María González-Tablas

Organisation: Center for Cancer Research 

"Great result, applicable in all of our research"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Analyse dystrophin in tissue sample

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          5.0

Comments: High quality, reproducible, easy to use, high intensity

Name: Laetitia GUEVEL

Organisation: UMR703 PAnTher 

"Good nuclear stain"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Separate two populations based on DRAQ5+/-

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          3.7

Comments: Good alternative to Hoechst, DAPI for multiplexing. Stained cells must be washed multiple times to avoid dye leakage into unstained cells.

Name: J Wu

Organisation: MGH

"Good results, bio-safe, easy to use, reliable, helped in visualization of nuclei in live HeLa cells and calculation of Nuclear vs Cytoplasmic ratio of LC3 using MATLAB."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Nuclei visualization in live HeLa cells

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          5.0

Comments: DRAQ5 was used to visualize nuclei in live HeLa cells using confocal fluorescence microscope LSM 510. This product is very stable and convenient to use. The protocol involving dilution and staining is very simple and easy to follow. The dye is not toxic to HeLa cells and bio-safe. The dye did not interfered with subsequent downstream biochemical analysis e.g. western blot and protein band detection by LI-COR.  DRAQ5 uses far red wavelength, it does not involve the risks associated with UV light as associated with some other nuclear staining dyes in market. Also it was advantageous to us since nuclei visualization was the most essential part of our experiments and DRAQ5 imaging was compatible with our LSM 510.

Name: pallavi manral

Organisation: Vanderbilt University

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Immunofluorescence - nuclei staining

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Value for Money:        ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 Average rating:          5.0

Comments: DRAQ5 is easy to use, gives reproducible results. Excellent product - good replacement of DAPI.

Name: Przemyslaw Juszczyński

Organisation: IHiT

"Bright signal. More consistent and lower spillover than DAPI."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Nuclear marker in localization studies (ImageStream), Tissue ImmunoFluorescence

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.3

Comments: We used DRAQ5 as nuclear staining in Flow Cytometry and ImageStream analysis to track the subcellular localization of different proteins. It works well with different detectors and offers a nice alternative to DAPI, leaving UV fluorophores available for other markers. 

This product is also very convenient in tissue immunofluorescence as a cellular marker (nuclei). It allows easy characterization of immune infiltrates in diverse tissues with better and more consistent signal than DAPI.

Name: Gerard Hernandez Mir

Organisation: University of Pittsburgh

"Perfect for nuclear staining!"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Molecular mechanisms of cell signaling and nuclear/cytoplasmic localization

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.7

Comments: I have been using this product for past 6 years and it is reliable, perfect and very easy to use.

Name: Yuvaraj Sambandam

Organisation: Medical Universtiy of South Carolina

"Great and reproducible results, I recommend the use of DRAQ5."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Staining of DNA in rat leukocytes

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          5.0

Comments: We used DRAQ5 staining for the validation of FSC/SSC dot plot based identification of rat leukocytes from lysed whole blood sample. The use of DRAQ5 is easy, it stained the nuclei instantly. We used DRAQ5 several times and achieved always similar staining intensities, indicating good reproducibility.

Name: Kornelia Szebenyi

Organisation: MTA TTK, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

"Very happy with this product."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Microscopy.

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.7

Comments: Very easy to use. Consistent nuclear staining for fluorescent microscopic analysis of cells and FFPE tissue.

Name: Jen Whiting

Organisation: University of Washington

"Excellent product that gives highly reproducible results."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Confocal microscopy looking at viral replication in neuronal cells in culture.

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.7

Comments: We used DRAQ5™ to stain the nuclei of neurons maintained in culture that were infected with herpes simplex virus 1 and processed for indirect immunofluorescence.  Samples were analyzed by confocal microscopy.

Name: Angela Pearson

Organisation: Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

"Good product."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Nuclei staining for microscopy imaging analysis.

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          3.7

Comments: It is easy to use. It can substitute DAPI, but it is the far-red that occupy one channel for other fluorophores. I used it for certain microscope that did not have DAPI channel.

Name: Dandan Liu

Organisation: University of Missouri-Columbia

"Easy to use, great results."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Cell staining.

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐

Value for Money:        ⭐⭐⭐

 Average rating:          3.7

Comments: Product is good, always works, good investment of money.

Name: elizaveta fasler-kan

Organisation: inselspital bern

"Great results and no time consuming staining."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Analyze morphology of human cells/ analyze the influence of nanomaterials on cells.

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.0

Comments: We noticed a good staining with DRAQ5™ of cell nuclei and repeatability of experiment. We obtained a good signal under the confocal microscopy. The DRAQ5™ dye doesn't bind unspecifically.

Name: Alicja Warowicka

Organisation: NanoBioMedical Centre, UAM

"Worked very nicely, we use it continuously."

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Analysis of cell division.

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.7

Comments: The product is very easy to use and very efficient in its application.  We have used it in the study of mitotic spindle orientation to identify the specific stages of mitosis. The product always worked very reliably in our hands. It could, however, a bit cheaper.

Name: Klaus Ebnet

Organisation: Institute of Medical Biochemistry, ZMBE, University Muenster, Germany 

"we usually use it in routine analysis"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       staining of living cells

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          3.3

Comments: Very easy product for the staining of cells in FASC analysis.

Name: Knut Biber

Organisation: University Hospital Freiburg 

"Highly recommend it. Works great for ImageStream"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Stain ovarian cancer cells

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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 Average rating:          4.0

Comments: DRAQ5 is extremely easy to use for our application: i.e. staining nuclei of cells for high imaging flow cytometry. Reproducible results every time. 

Name: Manos Karteris

Organisation: Brunel University London 

"Great results"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Analyze nuclei in cellular preparations

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Value for Money:        ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 Average rating:          5.0

Comments: Very easy to use, have the great advantage to be usable in live cells.

Name: Paolo Raffa

Organisation: Molecular Medicine Department - University of Padova

"Great label for the nucleus"

PRODUCT:                 DRAQ5

Application Area:       Marker for the nucleus

Ease of Use:              ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

After Sales Service:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Value for Money:        ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 Average rating:          5.0

Comments: DRAQ5 is a high quality far red nuclear label that we frequently use in semi-automated confocal microscopy experiments. The dye appears to behave very well--it is easy-to-use, stable, and provides a high quality label for the nucleus of live cells.

Name: Lewis Kraft

Organisation: Harvard University