Optimisation of organometallics?

Hello, I'm a beginner to computational chemistry, I'm attempting to optimise [Re(OH2)(CO)3(phen))]+ using gaussian. I have tried to optimise the structure using B3LYP method in gen mode SDD for...

20 December 2017 5,029 8 View

How to optimise Re complexes using gaussian?

Hello, I have to optimise [Re(OH2)(CO)3(phen)]+, I have made the structure on gaussview, I have attempted to optimise the complex with B3LYP method in gen mode (SDD for Re and 6-31g(d,p) for...

13 November 2017 4,636 5 View

Does pyramidins melts completely in a PCR reaction?

29 August 2016 2,868 3 View

What are the methods to fragment genomic bacterial DNA to get ~kb size fragments?

What are the conventional methods to fragment bacterial DNA to get ~1-10 kb size fragments? Is there any review paper or other publications out there if it's a very broad set of methods? Any...

25 February 2016 8,998 2 View

Why my HeLa cells are not adherent after freezing?

05 August 2014 2,754 20 View

What could cause Molt4 leukemia cancer cell line to grow very very slowly?

Does anyone have experience with this cell line? I bought this cell line as a frozen sample, and two months after thawing its growth is very slow. I'm using the medium composition as per ATCC .

19 November 2013 6,074 4 View

Is there a particular reason DPV is preferred over EIS or are there any cons or advantages of one over the other?

I have seen hybridization assays (detecting hybridization events) using both EIS (electrochemical impedance spectroscopy) and DPV (differential pulse voltammetry). I have seen less of EIS being...

04 August 2013 739 4 View

How to reduce noise during differential pulse voltammetry? Effect of working electrode area?

I am trying to run DPVs using a GCE/glassy carbon working electrode on Ruthenium in 0.2 M acetate buffer (Pt CE & Ag/Agcl RE). When I try using a lower surface area electrode I see that noise...

06 June 2013 6,409 19 View

Effect of layers of graphene oxide deposited on GCE (or other substrate).

Does the number of layers of deposited graphene oxide thickness determine electrochemical (EC) performance of Glassy Carbon electrode? If you say electrodeposit a thicker layer is that good or bad...

04 June 2013 1,607 8 View

Can someone help me in regards to separating Graphene Oxide by centrifugation?

I am preparing Graphene Oxide/GO using Hummers method. The protocol mentions filtering the GO. But that takes a week and it's hard to get the GO flakes off the filter paper. Can we do it faster by...

04 June 2013 1,104 19 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Which fluorescent dye to use for measuring total ROS production?

Is DCFDA appropriate for measuring total ROS production, or can it only detect certain types of ROS? If I want to measure total ROS production, which dye should I use?

01 March 2021 9,447 3 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

No amplification data for qPCR on MxPro?

I have set up a qPCR run on MxPro with SYBR green and ROX as a reference, however, when I go to the analysis section the program seems to only collect data for the dissociation curves and not the...

25 February 2021 8,039 1 View

Problem with ligating 2.8 kb insert into 8.5 kb plasmid?

I am trying to clone 2 copies of the same mammalian gene into the pSF-CMV-Ub-Puro Ascl (contains HindIII, KpnI and NheI cut sites) plasmid. This is what the final product is supposed to look like...

24 February 2021 6,310 3 View

Color of spiro-ometad film?

What does the color of a spiro-ometad film indicate? I got purple, green, red, even black color of the spiro film. Is there anything we can get from the preliminary color analysis(e.g. oxidation...

21 February 2021 1,831 4 View

In methylene blue test Why is UV absorbance reading very low as soon adsorbent is added and then increasing before reaching equilibrium?

Hello, I'm working on removal of methylene blue. 01. in the dark test very first reading is taken 15 minutes after adding adsorbent to the dye solution and that UV absorbance reading is very...

19 February 2021 472 5 View

Has anyone performed a colorimetric RT-LAMP assay using Lucigens LavaLAMP kit?

Hi there, my lab recently opted to use LavaLAMP from Lucigen instead of the Warmstart kit from NEB. However, Lucigen has yet to create a colormetric kit for RT-LAMP, and adding phenol-Red (pH...

17 February 2021 5,399 1 View