Creative ways to get my hands antibodies - ...for free (Feb/20/2006 )
Yeah he must work for Santa Cruz or something. I've already used my free antibody from Santa Cruz! It's for real.
yeah...i just tried it too...let see if it works for me :-)
Yes, this Immuno guy is for real. The phone numbers and emails are legitimate. This is not a joke! It is not too good to be true--it is a trade: a published paper using one of Santa Cruz antibodies for a free antibody, it is a win-win situation. Try it-send us your paper, we'll send you a free primary antibody!
Is this Immuno guy for real ???? or is it someone playing a cruel April fools joke 2 months too late...
Yes, this Immuno guy is for real. The phone numbers and emails are legitimate. This is not a joke! It is not too good to be true--it is a trade: a published paper using one of Santa Cruz antibodies for a free antibody, it is a win-win situation. Try it-send us your paper, we'll send you a free primary antibody!
Let try to call the immuno guy and email him to find out whether he is real.
Which company? Would you please tell me?
I also wish to try to obtain some free antibodies samples.
Thank you
Minnie Mouse
I also wish to try to obtain some free antibodies samples.
Thank you
Minnie Mouse
It's Santa Cruz Biotechnologies Inc.
Santa Cruz Homepage
Which company? Would you please tell me?
I also wish to try to obtain some free antibodies samples.
Thank you
Minnie Mouse
It's Santa Cruz Biotechnologies Inc.
Santa Cruz Homepage
Thank you
Please do call us and send us your papers citing Santa Cruz Biotechnology products.
Our phone number is 1-800-457-3801 ext. 2 (for Technical Service)
Our website is www.scbt.com. You can click on the Investigator Award link on the left side of the page to view details on the program and view past winners.
hahahah,, Oh my god, I had lough so much with your tips about getting free stuff. This was a really good topic.
, but once you get something for free once, they keep on sending you things to try!! It's like small christmasses all through the year. email definately gives you an advantage. You can go on and on about how your work is so interesting, but you can't afford this new whiz-bang reagent, and that you might be able to pursuade your PI into buying some (giving up the money that would have been spent on buying bread crumbs for dinner
*what?*). if you could just try it out, and show your PI that it works, and is worth the expense. After all, it is such a wonderful product, and although no other lab where you work uses it (that's why you can't steal a few uL from them), you've heard it cures cancer, eliminates wrinkles, and creates a new maserati from thin air. 
You can't use the phone all that often, becase your lab can't pay the bill.
If you do this, they usually offer a discount if you decide to buy the product later.
Trade fairs are also good for arranging freebees. I now have more pens and key rings from biotech coys than i can poke a stick at.
10X PBS... we had a new guy try to talk our boss into buying that.
Vetticus (completely using the "impoverished student in an impoverished lab" edge for all it's worth.)
Oh I am happy to see that I am not the only one who works in the very poor lab 
As a postgraduate student, I feel very sad and shy when reading journals or research reports from other countries. They run fast with techniques and technology because of the big amount of funds to support the lab. Here, I only can dream to get antibodies and another chemicals to run my research.
For instance, now I am into Reproductive Endocrinology. I only able to purchase radioimmunoassay kit to measure hormone level. I want to investigate Leydig cells and beta-cells of pituitary as candidates to study the mechanism of my substance and I cannot do anything. I am dreaming to be able to get primary antibodies towards those organs, then I can do something but.. oh well..
Santa Cruz... hmm I will try Wish me luck, guys and gals. When I could make my research, you will be invited on my party