Why doesn't my RNA loading look uniform?

I am running formaldehyde-agarose gel electrophoresis to perform non-radioactive northern blotting. I know northern blotting is a very old story now, however, I am trying to study different...

21 September 2020 8,153 4 View

How to design "A Tunable RF Front-End With Narrowband Antennas for Mobile Devices" ?

I don't know how to design the architecture using the PCB board and how to test the fabricated prototype ? can you help me out of this issue?

17 December 2019 9,068 4 View

Between Julia and MATLAB, which would be the most efficient for a discontinuous Galerkin FEM code?

I need to simulate a 2-D problem with DGFEM. I have been advised to use C/C++ for a code that delivers quick and efficient results, however, I am not very comfortable with them, and my base code...

16 December 2019 7,001 5 View

Can total energy Vs k-mesh increase to higher values in DFT-VASP?

I am performing DFT calculations on halide perovskites using VASP code. I began my calculations on CsPbI3 where I took 6.2 Angstrom as lattice parameter and built the cubic structure in VESTA....

16 September 2018 9,316 6 View

Can you please suggest a good bioinformatics textbook/guide for gaining expertise on multiple sequence alignments?

Hello all, I am looking for recommendations on a good bioinformatics textbook/guide which helps me gain sound background knowledge on multiple sequence alignments. A part of my research is to...

31 October 2017 1,582 3 View

96 well plate procedure for TPC and TFC?

31 January 2017 2,927 4 View

How can I minimize the air bubbles during a western blot wet transfer?

Hello everyone, I am right now facing the issue of air bubbles during the western blot wet transfer method. It is so frustrating that some silly air bubbles mess up the whole results. This is what...

20 March 2015 6,082 27 View

How can I induce DNA damage using Temozolomide?

Hi all, I am currently studying activation of PARP after inducing DNA damage. The method I follow is: 1) exposing tumor cells (HCT116, HeLa cells) and MEFs (WT and S12) to DNA damaging agent...

01 March 2015 3,311 3 View

Can anyone explain to me about tagged western blotting?

I am curious about the tagged western blotting, where, proteins are probed on a nitrocellulose/PVDF membrane with HIS-tag/GST-tag primary antibody initially, and later with a corresponding...

01 March 2015 6,492 3 View

What is the BRCA status of the colon cancer cell line HCT116?

I am trying to put together the BRCA and p53 status of various cell lines like HeLa, WT/S12 MEFs, HCC1937, MDAM231, MCF7, HCT116. I was able to get the statuses of every other cell line, but just...

30 November 2014 2,838 3 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

Expression cloning by using cDNA,do I need to modify the cDNA first?

I am going to have a expression cloning of mammalian gene by using shuttle plasmid to transforming the E.coli However I don't know I should only inserting the Coding sequence ,or I can...

28 February 2021 5,440 3 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View