baseclick GmbH – one of the industry partners of ClickGene – is very excited to announce their latest innovation, developed within the frame of ClickGene: a new and significantly enhanced click-chemistry based EdU “DetectPro”-Kit for the analysis of cell proliferation.

The baseclick EdU Kits provide a superior alternative to BrdU and [3H] thymidine assays by incorporating the thymidine analogue EdU during DNA synthesis and then using click chemistry for detection in a variety of dye fluorescent readouts. No harsh, DNA denaturating and laborious antibody based detection is required.

The new DetectPro Kits combine all the advantages of their very popular EdU Click Kits with a brand new fluorescence enhancer system. This makes them as easy to handle and as reliable as their predecessor, while showing outstanding efficiency and greatly enhanced signal and sensitivity. With key features such as low cell number requirement paired with low signal-to-noise ratios, baseclick  is on the forefront to the ultimate goal of “low content diagnosis”.

The new DetectPro Kits will be offered for three different readout systems: cell proliferation analysis by imaging, by flow cytometry and by high throughput screening analysis (HTS). Please visit the baseclick GmbH website for more detailed information on their new click-chemistry based tool.

Typical EdU cell proliferation assay: Incubation of HeLa cells for 30 minutes with EdU followed by click reaction guided detection using fluorescence microscopy. While in baseclick's standard EdU cell proliferation assay at such short exposure times (here 15 ms) only show very light signals of proliferating cells (middle image), the newly invented EdU DetectPro assay (right image) is able to detect cell proliferation with even higher efficiency and sensitivity with minimal background.