Does anyone has any experience in measuring thymosin beta 4 protein expression using western blot?

We are trying to measure thymosin beta 4 protein expression in HUVEC cell line and in mouse muscle and brown adipose tissue using western blot technique. However, we are not getting any band or...

07 December 2017 3,786 3 View

I'm looking for a cheap anionic dye, something maybe as expensive of fluorescein. The few I have found are quite expensive. Any advice?

Working on a project currently that requires the use of an anionic dye. Many of the ones I have found are quite expensive - on the order of $200 for 5g (sulfrhodamine etc). Do you guys have some...

20 June 2017 3,455 3 View

Does de-ionized water change color of a substrate coated with some chemical?

Out of curiosity, I would like to know whether any chemical coating on a substrate change its color when de-ionized water touches it. Precisely, if I pass some water through a microchannel in...

22 October 2016 4,945 3 View

Any advice on the force experienced by a wall caused by a moving vortex?

20 December 2015 4,845 5 View

How can we convert a linear azide into an amine?

The easiest way to convert linear azide into amine.

26 November 2014 4,776 17 View

What is the advantage of using 5 % milk in TBS-T as a blocking agent over 5 % BSA (Bovine Serum Albumin) in TBS-T

Which is the best blocking agent among BSA and Milk? Does it vary depending on the type of protein?

19 January 2014 1,098 35 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

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03 March 2021 5,360 2 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

What SPSS analysis should I run with one IV (with two levels) and two DVs?

Hi, I am trying to figure out which test would be most appropriate to run for the following question: Is there a difference in task blood pressure between smokers and non-smokers? There are two...

01 March 2021 8,235 2 View

Does anyone know an alternative product for cardiac Troponin T antibody for Immunofluorescence (Thermo # MA512960)?

We have been using Thermo Fisher anti-cardiac Troponin T antibody for immunofluorescence staining in FFPE mouse heart sections but it was recently discontinued. The literature shows it to be the...

01 March 2021 4,937 1 View

How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View