Listen to our customers’ feedback on how our lab systems and software have positively impacted their work.
Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
| “We wanted to visualize gels stained with SYBR® Safe, as it is less hazardous than having students use Ethidium bromide. In 2008, we installed a Syngene gel documentation system because it is much more sensitive than the Polaroid camera we were using and it easily detects SYBR Safe stained DNA.” “We now use the Syngene system all the time to teach our students how to image and quantify DNA. Every year over 60 students use the system to analyze multiple experiments, and then upload the results to our internal web site. They love it because it is intuitive. Each student can quickly produce an image of their gel, which is good as it prevents long lines of grumpy students lining up to use the system. I’d highly recommend a Syngene gel doc for use in teaching labs!” |
Dr Natalie Kuldell
Burzynski Research Institute, Texas, USA
| “Since 2007, we have been using the Dyversity 2D image analysis system to analyze proteins associated with brain tumors on chemiluminescent Westerns and have detected and quantified bands which we haven’t been able to see using other image analyzers. We also use Dyversity with Dymension 2D analysis software to quantify protein spots on 2D gels because the two together make this complicated analysis straightforward.” “The technical support we have had from Syngene is excellent. They have taught us how to use the software efficiently and have always been prompt to respond to all our queries with helpful suggestions. I would go so far as to say we have never had such great support from any other company and I would recommend a Dyversity and Dymension to anyone thinking of doing 2D gel work.” |
Dr Sonali Patil
Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
| “We’ve had a G:BOX Chemi for over two years and we use it for analysis of DNA fragments to examine relationships between taxa. We compared the G:BOX Chemi with three others from leading manufacturers and chose this system because it makes gel documentation very straightforward and offers the best performance. We have been very pleased with the G:BOX Chemi and by Syngene’s responsive technical support, so when we needed another gel doc system we knew purchasing a second G:BOX was the right decision”. |
Dr Kevin Feldheim
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| “We installed our first Syngene system in 2001 and now have 11 in our research and teaching lab. We use them because, unlike other imagers we have tried, Syngene systems can accurately detect DNA and RNA stained with SYBR® Safe. Syngene systems are quick and easy to set up, which is important as we often have 200 students in our sessions, all of whom need to capture their gel images. The units are very hardy too and our first Syngene system is still working well today, despite being tested to its limits.” “The support we receive from Insta BioAnalytik, Syngene’s agents here is great and if we have a problem, they help us to fix it quickly. This is good because with such heavily used systems, we can’t afford any downtime. When we need new image analysers, we always look at the latest Syngene one first, as Syngene systems have proved to be perfect for all our different needs.” |
Madam Subha
Allergens & Authenticity Department, Analytical Testing Company, UK
| “We test both raw and processed foods and fish using PCR and PCR-RFLP analysis to determine whether they contain other species of fish or meat than the labels state. Because we are running and staining many gels we prefer to use non-toxic SYBR Safe stain so we need a system that can detect DNA stained with this dye at the nanogram level to ensure our tests are sensitive enough. This is why we installed the G:BOX EF in 2008 because it is capable of doing just that.” “The G:BOX EF can detect 20ng of SYBR Safe stained DNA to give us the answers we need to help safeguard the public. I have found the G:BOX EF is very easy to work with because the software guides you through everything you need to do. Even when we had a technical problem, the service we received from Syngene was excellent and we were up and running again in no time, which is very important in a quality testing environment.” |
Technology Facility, University of York, York, UK
| “We are a core protein production facility, so we clone and express a wide range of proteins. We chose to install a G:BOX chemiluminescence imaging system in 2008 because of the three we assessed it is the most flexible, has the most user-friendly software and produces a data set that is much simpler to manage for chemiluminescent Westerns than autoradiography.” “Since then, we’ve seen more and more researchers in the university switching away from using X-ray film for their chemiluminescent blots and over to the G:BOX chemiluminescence imager, which I think shows how easy this system is to use.” |
Dr Jared Cartwright
Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| “We work with up and down-regulated genes and proteins from fruit fly eyes, which can generate very weak chemiluminescent signal. We stain our DNA with SYBR SafeTM DNA gel stain, protein gels with Coomassie® Blue R and immunoblots with ECL PlusTM, so we have to have an imager that can handle all these applications.” “After reviewing four imaging systems, we decided to install the G:BOX iChemi XR because it gave us the value of essentially having two systems in one and the GeneTools analysis software is, in my opinion, the best on the market.” |
Dr Che-Hsiung Liu
Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, UK
| “Our Dyversity system is used by a number of different research groups to image chemiluminescent and fluorescent Westerns, as well as DNA and protein gels of a variety of cancers. The service we have had from Syngene is excellent, as they trained us to get the best out of the Dyversity’s software and even helped us with a more unusual fluorescence application.” “We have used different imagers in the past and they were so complicated to set up that it is great to use the Dyversity system where the software is intuitive. Using the system we have obtained perfect chemiluminescent blot results, without having to stand over them or become a camera expert, which makes Dyversity the perfect imager for our research.” |