How to ensure a marker antibody won't activate T cells and affect the result?

I'm recently buying some anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 to activate T cells. I also notice some of this clones have been conjugated with fluorescence for the purpose of labeling T cells for flow...

09 October 2019 962 4 View

Why my gene in single-cell sequencing showed zero value?

I have many single-cell sequencing data. I checked my gene of interest in these data. However, all of these single-cell sequencing data showed that my gene has no expression, no matter in immune...

31 December 2018 3,638 3 View

Why can't I detect the surface protein by western blot?

I was doing an over-expression experiment of a gene for a year. It is a surface protein. The biggest trouble is that I can never detect the gene overexpression by western blot. Interestingly, when...

10 November 2018 7,195 3 View

Why some cancers are not prone to mutate?

When I first learn cancer biology, my teacher told me that cancer is usually caused by the loss of tumor suppressor , which is like you loss your brake. After it losses the suppressor, it tends...

05 June 2018 8,052 2 View

Are there any cancer cell lines that can form tumor in nude mice but not in normal (immune competent) mice?

Are there any mouse cancer cell lines that can form tumor in nude mice but not in normal (immune competent) mice? Please give me some examples. Thanks.

04 May 2018 6,666 2 View

What are the current applications of Artificial Intelligence in biology or cancer?

AI seems to be pretty popular these days and there are many applications in our daily life. But are there any AI designed to help our researchers to solve any biology questions?

04 May 2018 4,024 3 View

Why don't use ampicillin to select transduced mammalian cells?

Why don't use ampicillin to select transduced mammalian cells? also, I saw some lenti-vector is Bleo Resistant, is bleo used as bacteria selector or mammalian cells selector?

03 April 2018 7,544 0 View

Can I cut the two ends of a gene with same restriction site and clone it to a vector?

The two ends of my gene have same restriction sites. And the destination vector also has two same sites. Can I clone the gene directly to the destination vector? I know it's possible that the gene...

03 April 2018 8,318 4 View

What's the antibiotic cell selection for plasmid FUGW?

According to the website https://www.addgene.org/14883/, it has bleomycin resistance. However, bleomycin can be used both for bacteria selection and cell selection. Then what is the cell...

03 April 2018 3,768 1 View

For CRISPR, transfection or transduction?

For CRISPR, transfection or transduction? The CRISPR vectors I bought is lenti vector, so I can either do transfection or transduction. But which is better??

02 March 2018 2,193 4 View

Could you recommend any books about Number Theory?

Beginner level books. High level books. Analytical Number Theory. Algebraic Number Theory. Combinatorical Number Theory. Books about partitions. Books about primes.

03 March 2021 7,174 5 View

What kind of intervention will be relevant to increase motivation among young sport trainees?

Any suggestion on what book to read is also welcome.

03 March 2021 1,646 4 View

How the parameters (such as Mw, Chemical bonds, polymer bland and so on) affect the mechanic property of polymer (such as storage, loss modulus) ?

Anyone can recommend any books on such topics? Thanks in advance.

02 March 2021 8,457 2 View

I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

What element is driving the different slop in the low frequency tail?

My study consists simple corrosion inhibitors in salty brine. Right now I just fit my circuit with randles with CPE. Just wondering how the slop can given more info of the experiment. Or any...

01 March 2021 6,474 3 View

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View

How we can measure Kemp % in wool without using of benzene?

Would you please let me to know about the methods for measurement of medullation and Kemp % on animal? My problem is that the wool sampling and sending to laboratory is not possible. So I would...

21 February 2021 7,260 4 View

Any suggestions or recommendations on a good publishing house based on the African for academic books in the field of Communication and media studies?

I am currently working on a book on Public Relations (from an African perspective) and the rationale behind the book is the fact that as instructors in this field, we borrow instances and case...

19 February 2021 2,482 2 View