Does Biosearch Technologies offer NED fluorophores?

Biosearch Technologies does not offer NED™ dye because it is a proprietary dye owned by Applied Biosystems, Inc. (part of Life Technologies). We do, however, offer alternative dyes depending on your application. Many longer-wavelength dyes do not perform well in fragment analyzers such as the 3730 because these instruments rely upon a single 488 nmol laser for excitation and poorly excites red-shifted dyes. Applied Biosystem’s solution to this problem is to partner red dyes such as NED with FAM in a FRET construct. Biosearch does not offer such constructs so instead we advise customers to test our dyes on their instruments first. Should you decide to experiment with a dye that we manufacture, we recommend that you substitute NED with TAMRA.

Please refer to our Dye Selection Chart to review the dyes offered at Biosearch Technologies: www.biosearchtech.com/download/brochures/bti_bhq_selectionchart.pdf

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