How to extract RNA from brown adipose tissue(BAT)?

30 January 2021 6,610 3 View

How can we test interaction effect using repeated measure design?

Hi! I am currently working on a problem using repeated measure design. Each participant was assigned to two CONDITIONs (A and B). And their GOAL (continuous) were measured twice in condition A and...

25 November 2020 1,235 3 View

When performing mutliple behavioural tests over a period of time, should you habituate the animals before every test or just once at the beginning?

I am doing a baseline + 2 rounds of behavioural testing (NOR + NLR) - so total 3 rounds of testing, all 1 week apart in male SD rats. Is it necessary to habituate them before every test, or is...

17 June 2020 9,083 5 View

Can I use LS column and MidiMACS seperator from Miltenyi Biotec Neutrophil Isolation Kit for mouse peripheral blood?

We are using the neutrophil isolation kit from Miltenyi Biotec to get the neutrophils from peripheral blood from JAK2 constitutively active mice. This mouse is a leukemia model, so the traditional...

11 March 2020 8,611 3 View

Can I use satellite images to detect the leaking and clogging for a Surface Drip Irrigation System?

Hello everyone: I have being searching for three weeks now to find a possible solution using remote sensing. This application is for a vineyard 200m by 300m or even bigger. It has a a surface...

28 February 2020 3,723 5 View

Is it normal that Streptomyces fradiae culture is clumpy/particles/precipitated?

Hello, I cultured Streptomyces fradiae from a freeze-dried sample following ATCC protocol: use 6ml broth (tryptone 5g/l, yeast extract 3g/l) to rehydrate the sample and culture at 26 degrees...

05 February 2020 1,232 3 View

How to check the quality of MgO for magnetic tunnel junction?

I am making some magnetic tunnel junctions, but I always get the junction shorted. I am not sure whether the quality of MgO is good. Does anyone know how to check the quality of MgO? Such as AFM...

28 January 2020 139 2 View

Implement Topshim (Bruker NMR) shimming commands in IconNMR?

With Bruker's Topshim program, I have used the following command to shim every new sample: topshim z6 1d optsolvent coil=1H tuneb tunea Now I'd like to use IconNMR to automate this procedure,...

20 August 2019 1,111 5 View

How to dissolve and inject 4-hydroxytamoxifen to nude mouse?

What is the normal way to inject 500 ug 4-hydroxytamoxifen per mouse? Is it dissolved 4-OHT in ethanol and diluted with peanut oil at least 10 times?

10 May 2019 3,301 1 View

How to mesh in crack tip using shell element in ABAQUS?

S8R elements were applied in 2D cracked plate in ABAQUS. But when I drew a circle contour in the crack tip, it showed an error. I also checked the ANAQUS Manual and it told me that 'Focused...

21 April 2019 3,698 0 View

Plasmid amplification in S2 cell?

When co-transfect S2 cell with selection vector (pCoHygro or pCoBlast ) to make a stable cell line, does the gene integrate into the genome or just like E.coli? How do the plasmids amplify within...

09 February 2021 5,423 1 View

How can i improve my DNA purity for whole genome sequence that has high 260/230 ratio ?

I am performing whole genome sequence for gram negative acinetobacter baumannii using two platforms illumina miswq and oxford nanopore. Thus i require a very high yield and high purity. I am using...

31 January 2021 355 2 View

Is there any alternative to BUSCO for searching orthologues within genomes available?

I have a need to search for single-copy conservative orthologs within several plant genomes and used BUSCO tool for that. However, I found that the results produced by different versions on the...

29 January 2021 7,764 6 View

How to annotate list of gene names using Bash/R?

I have a list of gene names from deep sequencing from a constructed CRISPR knockout library. I was hoping to write a script to annotate all the gene names with a quick description of product...

27 January 2021 8,035 1 View

Question regarding investigation of the nature of bacteria: whether it can cause human diseases or not?

Hi all, Considering that one has the whole genome sequence (annotated) of a bacterium and wants to know if it has the potential to cause human diseases, what steps would you recommend...

26 January 2021 8,732 3 View

Can anyone explain why my starters are amplifying sequence from human genome instead of HPV16?

Hello, I'm working on primers from the publication: Okodo M, Okayama K, Teruya K, Sasagawa T. Uniplex E6/E7 PCR method detecting E6 or E7 genes in 39 human papillomavirus types. J Med Virol....

24 January 2021 7,636 3 View

What is your raw statistical treatment preference?

Hi, I have raw data from [HG-U133_Plus_2] Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array that I want to process using the Expresso function for Affymetrix microarrays. My samples include tumor...

22 January 2021 1,527 3 View

Can use Unigenes from RNA sequences for overexpression studies (transformation) without requiring a specific plant genome?

Dear researchers: If the plant genome has not been released yet, can Unigenes from RNA sequences be used after BLAST and confirmed with known Arabidopsis genes for function/overexpression...

20 January 2021 5,557 2 View

Can BLAST/ search by using known Domain in Transcriptome/Genome data for a gene family?

Dear Researchers, I have Transcriptome/Genome data and want to list all the member of a KCS/CER gene family whose Domain AP2/ERF, FAE1_CUT1, according to the Arabidopsis database, so is there...

15 January 2021 2,293 3 View

When making a phylogenetic tree, do I need to concatenate the chromosome and the plasmids for my reference?

This is such a basic question but I come from a non-bioinfo group so I keep getting different answers. I was wondering if when making a phylogenetic tree whether you have to concatenate the...

14 January 2021 2,492 2 View