Does TE buffer lyse human white blood cells?

In an experiment, I prepared serial dilutions from fresh human blood samples (EDTA tubes) using TE buffer. Now I need to know if the white blood cells were intact or not in the diluted blood...

12 December 2013 9,910 6 View

Consciousness and Mind: New Perspectives Using Layer Logic?

Hello, Consciousness/Mind is considered puzzling. For example our subjective feeling and perception e.g. of pain and colors (Qualia). First I want to deal with other special features: 1)...

01 January 1970 4,225 2 View

RIA. How to measure?

When you use RIA, with a control the unknown sample with antibodies, you bare in mind the binding sites of the antibodies. However you still need to measure labelled antigen (radioactive) and not...

28 February 2021 2,133 3 View

What is the best temperature to coat an ELISA plate?

Hello, I want to control the temperature of my ELISA plate during incubations to get consistent results. In general, what is the best temperature to coat the plate with antibody? I have been...

16 February 2021 2,377 7 View

Can Immunogenic BNT162b vaccines protect HUMANS from SARS-CoV-2?

"A safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 is urgently needed in quantities sufficient to immunise large populations. We report the preclinical development of two BNT162b vaccine candidates,...

11 February 2021 6,628 9 View

Difference between assessing EC50 in presence of physiological levels of human serum albumin and alpha1 acid glycoprotein vs. % human serum?

01 February 2021 1,825 1 View

How would you assess protein binding adjusted EC50 for a drug that has a binding rate of over 95%?

I'm in need of a reference or a method to come up with a protocol that allows one to get the protein-adjusted EC50 for an antiviral drug in presence of human serum albumin and acid glycoprotein.

27 January 2021 1,402 1 View

Where can I find the receptor binding domain (amino acid sequence) of ALL pathogenic viruses?

I want to compare the RBD of all pathogenic viruses? Is there a database or manuscript that anyone knows of where I can access these?

25 January 2021 3,843 4 View

Can anyone helps me with Autodock 4.2 scripts error ?

After opening the file, I operate command "Script" --> "Ligand Interactions" --> "Show Ligand Binding Site Atoms" and the warning appears as "This script displays ligands and surrounding...

15 January 2021 5,360 1 View

How to calculate binding energy and different interactions from a pdb file of protein-ligand complex?

I have done a docking study by using mcule.inc web-service. I got the .pdb file of my protein-ligand complex from there. As I am using a free student account, I don't have access to more...

14 January 2021 2,321 2 View

What are the insilico tools available to recognize transcription binding sites on a promoter ?

I have to control the expression of a gene ( in vitro ). For designing an optimal promoter assay, I would like to know more about Transcription factor binding region, enhancer and repressor...

11 January 2021 7,992 3 View

Tight binding disperion relation from wannier90_hr.dat file?

I have done ab-initio calculation using vasp and also have done wannier90 calculation and got the wannier90_hr.dat file which contains all the tight-binding hopping terms which are required to...

31 December 2020 6,445 2 View