Free antibody validation service

Be Part of the Antibody Revolution—Because Science Deserves Better. Validate antibodies for your intended application—before you buy. Read the full Antibody Accountability Manifesto here.

Tell Us Your Experiment Settings. We’ll Validate Antibodies For You—Before You Buy.

  • Choose from 10,000+ Boster Bio antibodies
  • Validation available across 500+ sample types (human, mouse, rat, monkey, zebrafish)
  • Free antibody validation offered in WB, IHC, IF, ICC, flow cytometry, IP, and ELISA
  • Includes positive controls, negative controls, and application-matched protocols
  • No obligation—buy only if the data meets your standards
  • "This saved us weeks in the lab." — Tara McDonald

Testimonial from Tara McDonald

How to Request Free Antibody Validation

Complete a short 2-minute form to get started:

What’s Included in Free Validation

This service helps you avoid wasting time and budget on antibodies that don’t work in your system. It supports early determination of antibody affinity, specificity, and cross-compatibility with your setup—before you commit to purchase.

  • You tell us your research settings

    Fill the form above or email us with your species, application, sample types, target protein, biomarkers/antibodies of interest and any other details that matter to you. Send email to freevalidations@bosterbio.com. Only antibodies marked with the badge below are eligible for this program.

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  • We test our antibodies in-house on similar sample types

    This process takes 2-5 days after confirming our proposed experiment details. If there is a queue the lead time could be longer.

  • You get a full validation report

    You will receive a professional report PDF file that contains result images + protocol used. For histology validations, our certified pathologists assess antibody specificity and will also give a pathological staining score for each antibody, if applicable.

  • ... All for free, before you decide to buy

    No strings attached. This is our commitment to antibody reliability. You only purchase if you're confident in the results.

What Free Antibody Validation is not

Let’s Clear Up Some Common Misunderstandings

  • This is NOT a free sample program

    You are looking at an one-of-a-kind program that's never been done before. It is NOT to send you samples so you can test yourself, but we do the test for you. However, if you want sample-size antibodies, we have those too.

    We used to have sample size antibodies but due to long lead time as a result of the international logistics disruption in recent years, we have discontinued them.

  • This is NOT a send-us-your-sample program

    We test with our in-house samples only. Our form above is integrated with an AI tool to help select the most relevant samples for you. If you do not find ones you like, we will recommend.

    Note that we do offer immunoassay services, including WB, IHC, Multiplex IF, and ELISA, for a fee.

  • This is NOT a program to test other vendors’ antibodies

    We can only test the 10000+ participating antibodies from Boster Bio in this program free of charge. We do offer paid immunoassay services if you need extended testing.

The Antibody Accountability Manifesto

Our mission and why we are in a unique position to offer free validation for antibodies.

Free validation initiative mission statement

The antibody industry is overdue for a shift.

For decades, scientists have been forced to gamble hundreds—sometimes thousands—of dollars on antibody providers selling antibodies that might not even work. They've had to rely on reputation, citations, and gut instinct to pick reagents, only to be left with unreliable data, weeks of wasted time, and little support when things go wrong.

We believe it shouldn’t be this way anymore.

At Boster Bio, we’re more than an antibody manufacturer—we’re your scientific partner. Our mission is to move the antibody industry into its next stage: one defined not by gambling with funding, but by accountability, transparency, and service. Our Free Validation Program is designed to take the burden of trial-and-error off your shoulders. We test our own antibodies in your specific application context—before you buy—so you can get data that works, not just data sheets.

This isn’t a free sample. It’s a fundamental rethinking of what it means to support scientific discovery. When vendors take responsibility for performance before the purchase, researchers win. Wasted budgets shrink. Confidence grows. And the bad actors—the ones who rely on ambiguity and excuses—can’t survive in the light of real data.

We're not just offering a service. We're starting a movement.

One where antibody companies earn your trust by doing the work upfront.

One where reproducibility isn’t optional.

And one where you get to focus on science, not damage control.


Why We Can Offer Free Antibody Validation

One of the most common questions we get is: “How are you able to offer free validation? Isn’t that expensive?”

It’s a fair question—but it’s based on a common misconception.

If you’ve only experienced antibody validation from the bench—where it takes a grad student hours to source reagents, prep samples, and troubleshoot protocols—it’s easy to assume it’s costly and inefficient. But for an antibody company with the right infrastructure, that’s simply not the case.

We’re Built for This:

  • We already have the samples. Common tissues and lysates are prepped in large batches and kept on hand.
  • We already have the antibodies. Our in-house inventory allows instant access—no shipping, no waiting.
  • We already run these assays—at scale. Our technicians specialize in high-throughput validation using optimized SOPs, bulk reagents, and automated systems.
  • We already absorb these costs. We run thousands of validations each month. This program simply lets us prioritize the tests our customers want most.

It’s a Win-Win:

We already plan to test our antibodies across species, tissues, and applications. This program doesn’t add new work—it simply helps us focus our validation pipeline on markers you actually care about.

Instead of testing every antibody in every setting preemptively, we validate on demand. That saves you time and saves us effort. Everyone wins.

Why Most Antibody Companies Can’t Do This:

  • A large, diverse catalog: With only a few hundred antibodies, users often won’t find what they need. Boster Bio offers thousands.
  • High-quality products: If 9 out of 10 antibodies fail validation, the cost becomes unsustainable. Our stringent QC process keeps our success rate high.
  • You have to be a manufacturer: Most big-name antibody brands are actually resellers. They don’t produce the antibodies themselves and lack the infrastructure, inventory access, and cost efficiency to support a program like this.
  • The right mindset: We’ve always believed it’s our job to help antibodies work for you—not just sell vials. We’ve done custom validations quietly for years. Now it’s official.

This Is How It Should Be:

We’re proud to be moving the antibody industry forward—from a catalog-based system built on guesswork, to a service-first model grounded in accountability.

This program isn’t just a marketing gimmick. It’s a declaration: We stand behind our products. And we believe you deserve data you can trust—before you buy.

Ready to validate your antibody for free?

Submit your request and receive application-specific results in just a few days.


CASE STUDY

Figure 1: Free validation details.