Bio-Techne Adds Citation Tool: Learn How Our Products Have Been Used in Scientific Literature

Ruha Adelkar, M.S.| MBA & Jennifer Jones, M.S.

Finding the right reagent that fits your experiment can be a challenging task. It requires in-depth research and comparing different products, which can be time-consuming. Additionally, it's difficult to know if the reagent will work in your experiment. Peer-reviewed papers are a key component to understanding if a reagent such as an antibody, protein, ELISA kit, or small molecule is suitable for your experiment. However, finding the right paper is often a challenge within itself.

Bioz Widget: Citations and Images at Your Fingertips

Bio-Techne is committed to providing best-in-class customer experience and to make the process of finding the right products as efficient as possible. To ensure that vetting the reagents goes smoothly, Bio-Techne has partnered with Bioz to introduce the citation widget on our product pages. This AI-powered tool showcases product citations and images, offering researchers access to real-world validation from peer-reviewed scientific articles in one click.

What Makes the Widget Unique?

The Bioz AI engine is built by experts with experience working at Microsoft and Google, including Nobel Laureates. The 7 US patents granted to the technology that cover this advanced AI engine ensures that researchers get the most accurate and latest publication data.

Key Features of the Citation Widget:

• Unbiased Product Rating: View the Bioz Star rating, an algorithmic product score, on our product pages to quickly choose products that have been used frequently and recently by other researchers in their experiments.
• Quality You Can See: This user-friendly citation widget enables researchers to view data images alongside the figure legend and article snippet. It also allows you to enlarge the data images and read the full article to help understand the details of the experiment and how Bio-Techne reagents are being used.
• Easy-to-Use Filters: Filter by one or more interest areas for your product from application to reactivity to authors, and see how your product was used in the literature under the specified criteria.

How to Use the Tool on Bio-Techne

This intuitive citation widget is easily accessible through the search results and on the product pages.

1. Once you have your product of interest, simply click on the citations link to find the relevant publications from trustworthy sources including PubMed journals, open-access, preprints, and subscription journals.

Figure 1: Human/Mouse/Rat CD31/PECAM-1 Antibody (Catalog Number AF3628 | R&D Systems) product page.

2. To get specific results for your unique experiments, refine your search using the various filter options such as applications, reactivity, sample and more.

Figure 2: Demonstrating filters to quickly narrow down the publication results.

3. This widget also allows researchers to enlarge data images, article snippets and easily read the full article.

Figure 3: Product page showcasing Bioz citation tool with an expanded view of the data image and figure legend.

This exciting new addition to Bio-Techne's site and product pages makes it easier for you to see how a product was used in the scientific literature. Save valuable time deciding if a product will work for your research and have more confidence in your selection. Continued improvement based on customer feedback is important to us; let us know how our new citation widget works for you!

Ruha Adelkar, M.S.| MBA

Senior Product Marketing Specialist at Bio-Techne

Jennifer Jones, M.S.
Senior Product Marketing Specialist, Antibodies, at Bio-Techne