Newsletters
- Introducing ProMag™ Bind-IT™
(Novel Pre-Activated Microspheres.)
Quantum (MESF) Leap
(Introducing Quantum™ Alexa Fluor® MESF Kits.)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2010.)
Second(ary Antibodies) to None!
(Protein A and Protein G Ab Binding Beads.)
Join Bangs in Sunny Florida for The Latex Course™ 2010!
(Join Bangs for the 18th offering of this popular international course.)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Carryover, optimal antibody concentrations, and compensation standards.)
- Introducing the New Fabulous Five!
(Our newest product – Quantum™ FITC-5 MESF.)
It's Freezin' Season
(Shipping changes through the winter months.)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
Look to Bangs for Happy Holidays in a Ho-Hum Economy
(Shopping ideas and inspiration for the holiday season.)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(The impact of Bangs Bead Solution on coating and the stabilization of polystyrene microspheres.)
(Our Version of) The Rat Pack
(Introducing the Simply Cellular® anti-Rat Compensation Standard.)
It's Coming...It's Getting Closer
(Coming soon...The Latex Course™ 2010!)
- A New Year - A New Look
(The launch of our new website!)
Bargain Beads!
(Check out the Bargain Beads section on our website.)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
(Almost) 2 Good 2 Believe
(BioMag® Protein A and Protein G - New 2mL Volume.)
Bangs Goes Buff!
(Introducing our New Line of Buffers)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Conjugating LPS to carboxylated beads and silica beads for flow cytometry.)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2009)
- Bangs Bead Solutions
(Introducing our latest product - a solution for you!)
Happy New (Product) Year!
(Introducing the Flash Red Intensity Standard)
It's Freezing Season!
(Winter shipping reminders)
Bargain Beads!
(Check out the Bargain Beads section on our website.)
(PolyLink) Conjunction Junction
(Our tribute)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Mounting issues, low coupling problems, and crosslinking tips)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
- A Look Back
(Remembering the Last 20 Years)
Flow Cytometry Standards
(Amines to an End)
Seeing Far Red
(Far-Out Red Reference Standard)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(An introduction to flow cytometry, and Quantum™ Simply Cellular® beads)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2008) - Full Service?
(Full Spectrum™)
Wishing for a Star?
(Try ProMag™!)
What? Bargain Beads?!
(Check out the bargain beads section on our website.)
Phagocytosis
(Who's Hungry?)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Centrifugation helps, and polystyrene shelf-life and stability)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2008)
- You asked...we answered
(Our New Catalog Has Arrived!)
Bangs Sponsors Cytometry CD
(Contact Bangs for your free copy)
Here We Grow Again!
(Introducing BioMag®Plus Concanavalin A)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Quantum™ FITC microspheres and calibration standards)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2007) - Magnetic Microspheres
(ProMag™, COMPEL™, and BioMag® particles)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2007)
Wait! We're Not Done Yet!
(Introducing BioMag®Plus Wheat Germ Agglutinin)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Quantum™ MESF and Quantum™ Simply Cellular® products) - Tah-Dah! Introducing ProMag™
(Our Best Superparamagnetic Microspheres Yet!)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2007)
ViaCheck™
(Viability Instrument Standards)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(ProMag™ and binding biotinylated oligonucleotides) - The Latex Course™ 2006
(Held this year in Orlando from October 1 - 4, 2006)
Year of the Dragon
(New Dragon Green Intensity Standard)
Functionalized Silica
(Offering You Even Greater Flexibility)
You Dirty Rat!
(Anti-Rat Beads for your Quantitative Needs!)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Fluorescence Reference Standards, Flow Cytometry Supplement, and SNARe™ kits)
- SNARe™ DNA Purification Systems
(Simple Nucleic Acid Recovery products)
The Latex Course™ 2006
(Held this year in Orlando from October 1 - 4, 2006)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2006)
Quantum™ Cy5 MESF
(So many kits to choose from!!)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Cool Articles Citing the Use of Microspheres.)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Reference standards and PolyLink coupling)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - PolyLink Protein Coupling Kit
(Used for covalent attachment of proteins to COOH beads --- and it's easy, too!)
The Value of a Great Copycat
(The Benefit of Quantum™ MESF)
QuickCal® v. 2.1 Discontinued
(Don't fret; QuickCal® v. 2.3 is available and better than ever)
Quantum™ APC MESF
(APC, that's Allophycocyanine, joins the Quantum™ MESF Line of products)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Cool Articles Citing the Use of Microspheres)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(BioMag® or COMPEL™ ... that is the question)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - What's Your Dynamic Range?
(NIST Traceable Particle Size Standards)
QuickCal® v. 2.3
(FREE Data Analysis tool)
"On the Road Again!"
(Our tradeshow schedule)
Ultra Rainbow Fluorescent Particles
(Spherotech™ Particles Now offered at Bangs Labs)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Cool Articles Citing the Use of Microspheres)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Quantum™ MESF and tips for working with 100nm microspheres)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - BioMag® Solutions
(BioMag® ProMax Serum IgG Removal Kit)
YG Fluorescent Spheres
(Announcing the expansion of our fluorescent microsphere line)
QuantumPlex™M
(COMPEL™ and QuantumPlex™, together at last!!)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(814?? and UV & Violet excitation)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - BioMag® Solutions
(BioMag® ProMax Albumin Removal Kit)
Magnetic QuantumPlex™
(COMPEL™ uniform superparamagnetic meet QuantumPlex™)
The Latex Course™ 2004 Course Book
(Now available. Hurry, they're going fast!)
Bangs Labs' Custom Services
(BLI offers a range of custom services for your unique needs.)
Boulders-in-the-Stream
(Lateral Flow Test Format)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Daily QC of flow cytometers and products for various cell separations)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - PolyLink Protein Coupling Kit
(For the covalent attachment of proteins to carboxyl modified microspheres)
The Latex Course™ 2004
(Description of the wonderfully educational course in September [did we mention it's being held on Coronado Island!]).
"On the Road Again!"
(Our tradeshow schedule)
BioMag® Solutions
(Antibody Purification from Serum or Cell Culture Supernatant)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Some good microsphere reads)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Selecting recombinant antibodies, coupling antibodies to beads 101, and Full Spectrum™ microspheres to check the alignment of lasers)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - NIST-Traceable Fluorescence Quantitation
(Bangs to offer NIST-Traceable Quantum™ MESF Kits)
The Latex Course™ 2004
(School is in session - join us for the three-day microsphere education extravaganza!)
"On the Road Again!"
(Visit Bangs at these tradeshows in 2004)
Flow By The Numbers
(Practical Quantitative Flow Cytometry Workshop)
BioMag® Solutions
(Learn how BioMag can help you with your Molecular Biology applications)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Articles about particles - our favorite kind of articles!)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Flow Cytometry Absolute Count Standard™, Simply Cellular®, and biotin-coated BioMag®)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - BioMag® Separation Solutions
(Our introduction of BioMag® superparamagnetic microspheres)
Quantum™ MESF APC kits for quantitative flow cytometry
(Look for the kits in spring 2004)
Separation Anxiety
(No worries! We can help you decide on a suitable BioMag® particle)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Importance of compensation, difference in compensation kits, getting started with BioMag®)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - Polysciences Joins Forces with BLI
(Bangs Laboratories is acquired by Polysciences - What a Team!!)
QuickCal® Changes Format
(New Version Easier to Use, and Best of All, It's FREE!)
Seeing Things in a New Light
(New Application for Fluorescent Magnetic Microspheres)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Quick, gal, where's my QuickCal®!; QuickCal® 2.2 data matches YOUR kit;
Lectin coated beads; COMPEL™ magnetic beads for flow cytometry)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - Quantum™ Simply Cellular®
(Quantitation of Cell Surface Antigens)
Blue Light Specials: with Silica Beads
(Bargain prices on silica and all other beads for that matter)
ImmMagnetic Sep'n/Detec'n: Bacteria
(Some fine folks keeping our food and water sources in tip-top shape)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Citing use of our microspheres)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Switching [antibody] sources in midstream? and Applications for Plain Jane Silica?)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - MESF Product Spotlight
(How to choose the right standard)
BLI 15 Yrs Old on April Fool's Day
(Thank you for the past 15 wonderful years.)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Citing use of our microspheres)
"On the Road Again!"
(Our Trade Show Schedule)
What Time Is It in Indiana?
(We never change our clocks)
Blue Light Specials
(Our bargain priced beads now include silica)
The Latex Course™ Book
(You can still order a course book from The Latex Course™ June 2002)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Correlation between flow cytometers?, MESF correlation to antibodies on a cell, and stability of [strept]avidin/biotin binding for PCR thermocycling)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - COMPEL™ - Uniform Magnetic Beads
(Highly uniform, superparamagnetic, microspheres, in diameters of 3, 6, and 8µm)
NEW: Anti-Human Beads
(No, not you silly - the beads! It's our new Quantum™ Simply Cellular® anti-Human IgG kit)
ISO 9001:2000 Certification
(Our commitment to quality, customer satisfaction, and continual improvement)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Citing use of our microspheres)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(What's new with your new magnetic beads?, anti-Human conspiracy, and avoiding freezing)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - AACC 2002 Follow-up
(We had many questions after our lectures - thank you! Here is some of the information we shared)
United Way Day of Caring
(On September 13th, many of us will be out volunteering)
The 1988 AACC Bead Booth Story
(How foam balls set a standing company record 15 years ago)
"On the Road Again!"
(We don't have a tour bus and most of us are tone deaf - but please come see us at one of the many shows we will be attending the remainder of the year)
The Bangs Gang
(Addition of two Chris's and a bird, er, Robin)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Citing use of our microspheres)
The Latex Course™ Book
(You missed the course - but you can still get the course book)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Adsorbing IgG, IgG's adsorbed per bead = angels on the head of a pin?, and bead size choice)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - QuantumPlex™ SP
(A "single population" of the QuantumPlex™ kits)
Bead Corral
(PUT THE SCUBA GEAR DOWN! These corrals allow researchers to study a small sample of beads)
The Tie Story
(It is quite an amusing story!)
The Latex Course™ 2002
(It's over but you can read speaker bios and lecture topics on the website - or heck, just get the course book!)
"On the Road Again!"
(Tradeshows, dates, and booths we will be at for the rest of the year)
The Bangs Gang
(Additions, Promotions, and Departures)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Citing use of our microspheres)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Flow question, oligonucleotide immobilization, CML binding, and Mom, Make the streptavidin let go!)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - The Latex Course™ 2002
(Description of the course in June)
QuantumPlex™ for Cytokine Analysis
(Dot plot data from a multiplexed cytokine assay)
QC3™ Calibration: 4-Color Standards
(New product for calibration of flow cytometers)
"On The Road Again..."
(Our upcoming tradeshows)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Silica, streptavidin-coated, fluorescent, and magnetic bead applications)
Strangely Believe It!
(It's our customers who have made us what [as strange as] we are!)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Fluorescence, streptavidin/biotin stability, LATs, and MESF)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - The Latex Course ™ 2002
(Join us at The Latex Course™ in Bangs' city)
Bead Sandwich
(Hungry? SEM image of 1µm beads stuck to 10µm Beads)
'Tis the Season!
(Our "thanks" with a free calendar!)
BLI Beads Now Distributed Worldwide
(Find a distributor near you)
2001 Road Show: Last Stop
(Our last tradeshow for the year)
Looking for Blue Light Specials?
(We don't actually have a blue light, but we do have beads at a bargain price)
2001 Book: Going, going,...
(Get your copy of The Latex Course™ 2001 Book before they're gone)
"Polymer Scientist" Defined
(Need we say more...)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Citing use of our microspheres)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Conjugating antibodies to beads and binding one molecule per bead?)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - AACC July 31 - August 2 - a Slumber Party?
(Copies of Nathan Foushee's talk at the OEM Lecture Series are available)
Flow Cytometry Back-to-School Sale!
(Save some money with our Flow Cytometry sale)
"On the Road Again!"
(Schedule of upcoming tradeshows we are attending)
The Latex Course™ 2001 Book
(The course is over for this year, but there are a few course books still available)
Diagnostic Consultant
(Need a consultant? Go no farther, or is it further? hum...)
The Bangs Gang
(Promotions and additions to our team)
Recent BLI Presentations
(You can find them on our web-site)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Measuring beads, beads "out on a Limn" in Antarctica?, ProActive™ SA-beads: Best buffer for Biotin binding?, and PEG-coated beads to prevent protein adsorption)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
- FCSC + BLI = First Anniversary
(How our marriage has done over this first year)
Four-Color QC3 Reference Standards
(Details of our soon-to-be-released four-color format QC3 beads)
AACC/ July 31 - August 2 --- Chicago
(Please stop by our booth and attend our lecture)
Cool Applications of Beads
(Quick titer-SQ AND PickPen)
The Bangs Gang
(We've had twins! Well, maybe not - but we have two new additions to our gang)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Citing use of our microspheres)
The Latex Course™ 2001
(It's over - but there are copies of the course book available)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Measuring solids content, how to dilute beads, and charge reversal on silica)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
- QuantumPlex™: Streptavidin follows GAM
(Now you can choose from two binding proteins = increased flexibility!)
Last Call for The Latex Course™ for 2001
(Description of the course in June... San Diego!)
New Product Developments
(New estapor® Magnetic Beads)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Citing use of our Quantum™ beads.)
Idea for QuantumPlex™ Beads
(Alzheimer's screening by detection of increased concentrations of metals in the blood.)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Parking area calculation and use; hydrophobic bead coating)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - QuantumPlex™ - a Crossover Product
(New product for multiple analyte detection [a.k.a. multiplex assays])
The Latex Course™ 2001 in CA
(Description of the 14th [nearly] annual course in San Diego)
The Latex Course™ 2000 Book
(We're still sellin' copies of the course book)
New Product Developments
(estapor® magnetic beads with a narrow size distribution)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Binding protein to magnetic beads for Ab fishing and binding Concanavalin to beads)
It's the Best Time of the Year!
(Our best to you and yours)
SiO2 Beads Link Fiberoptics Net
(Explaining how in the world optical fiber cables are joined - fascinating stuff)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
- FCSC + BLI: What's Happening Inside?
(Explaining changes since Flow Cytometry Standards Corporation joined us)
Ask "Professor Quanty™"
(Introducing a new character with a "flow" question)
"On The Road Again..."
(Listing upcoming shows where we'll be present)
The Latex Course™ Book
(You can still order copies of the course book from May 2000)
The Bangs Gang
(New names and moves within BLI)
New Product Developments
(Improved COOH- silica + small Mag beads available)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Clumped nanoparticles and binding more IgG to mag beads)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!) - BIG News: FCSC + BLI Get Hitched!
(Announcing our acquisition of Flow Cytometry Standards Corporation)
AACC 2000 in San Francisco
(Outlining plans for AACC Meeting in San Francisco in July)
The Latex Course™ Book
(Copies of the course book from the course in May)
The Bangs Labs Team
(Promotions and new faces at BLI)
P(articles)2 = Particles Articles
(Several papers of interest to "particular" people)
"Particle Man"
(Words to a bizarre song from the CD Flood by "They Might Be Giants")
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Uses for silica beads and DNA binding to beads)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
- New Management Team at Bangs Lab
(Announcing promotions for 5 top managers at BLI)
The Latex Course™ 2000
(Description of the course in May)
Un-Latex™ SiO2 Chromatography Beads
(Announcing immediate availability of non-porous silica for CEC and HPLC)
Top 10 Things You Don't Want To Hear from Tech Support
(Humorous responses by Tech Service)
Silica & Genomes
(Important reference for silica use in large scale DNA recovery)
New ProActive® Protein A
(Announcing improved Protein A coating process now available)
We're Dyeing for (your) Business!
(We're offering to dye for you! What colors do you need in which beads?)
Tips to get more protein on mag beads
(Miscellaneous ideas for improving yield with mag beads)
Ask "The Particle Doctor®"
(Agglutination and binding/removing protein from beads)
Mail Bonding
(Subscribers do the 'write' thing!)
- For newsletters prior to 2000, please contact our Customer Service Department and they will be happy to email you the requested issue.
