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Has anyone tried to scan fluorescence IHC slides with microarray scanner?

I have an old slide microarray scanner (VIDAR Revolution 4200) and would like to give it a "second life", as IHC scanner array (fluorescence dyes), FISH over tissue or similar. Has anyone tried...

24 February 2021 9,210 1 View

Different antibodies show signal at same MW in SDS-PAGE, what is wrong?

16 February 2021 2,857 9 View

The modern system of international relations: unipolar or multipolar world?

Do you think that there is one center of power in the modern world, or are all countries equal in the international arena?

01 January 2021 7,026 2 View

Mie scattering of a Gaussian with curved wavefront by a sphere?

Can anyone please suggest some references? I would like to simulate scattering of a fundamental mode of a fiber by a microsphere. I am only familiar with a plane wave case, but in case of a curved...

01 January 2021 1,440 3 View

Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit 260/230 contamination?

I've been trying to extract DNA from rat liver tissue using Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit. I followed handbook procedure and all of my samples had low 260/230 (

21 December 2020 7,100 3 View

Student's t-test or DeSeq2 for RNA-Seq data analysis?

Hi everybody, I am analysing RNA-Seq data of patient samples. One group of samples has a certain monoallelic deletion, the other group 2 copies of the wildtype gene. Now, I want to compare the...

28 November 2020 5,977 3 View

Cre-loxp system does not work (lines #017455 and #017320, JAX). Why?

We bought this year two lines (#017455 and #017320) to get specific expression of channelrhodopsin2 (ChETA, in this case) in parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons. We hoped that crossing a mouse...

16 November 2020 8,701 1 View

Why after cloning recombinant pET in E. coli DH5a I get a very low plasmid yield after extraction?

I chemically transformed a ligation product (pET28a and my gene of 3051 bp) into E coli DH5alpha competent cells. I plated 200 and 800 ml of my transformation on plates of LB agar Kan (25 mg/ml)....

13 September 2020 4,421 3 View

VMD error file:///usr/local/lib/vmd/vmd_LINUX: not found ?

I tried to download VMD version 1.9 as it wouldn't require things for my computer to process. I did the necessary steps to install it and it finally said "VMD installation complete, Enjoy!"...

06 September 2020 6,224 2 View

Good markers to distinguish D1R/D2R striatal medium spiny neurons?

Hi! I want to distinguish D1R and D2R subpopulations of medium spiny neurons in striatum in immunofluorescence. Most of the papers I found use transgenic EGFP mice targeting this receptors, but I...

31 August 2020 3,863 2 View

How can I measure MMP-1 protein activity or protein level from liver tissue?

Instead of checking only the mRNA level, I want to check the active protein level of MMP-1 in Liver tissue from mice. How can I do that?

03 March 2021 1,763 2 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

Does any one know how i can prepare liver tissue with transmission electron microscope with good fixation?

i have problem in preparation of liver tissue with bad cell organelles and how i can adjust osmolarity

03 March 2021 8,890 1 View

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

Which reagent is best among 'Dimethylglyoxime" and "Dithiothreitol" for spectroscopic determination of Nickel ?

What I think is Dithiothreitol. As it is water-soluble and does not form a precipitate. But, the thing is it contains sulphur which is quite hazardous to aquatic animals.

01 March 2021 8,374 4 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 3 View