EMSA troubleshooting. Protein-DNA complex not migrating, cold probe lane with multiple bands. Can anyone help?

I'm running an EMSA to show the DNA binding activity of recombinant proteins versus the Wild type. Previous assays run by my research group using a different test system show the protein-DNA...

24 February 2021 8,325 1 View

Why is my qPCR suddently not working?

I've been working with qPCR for some months now. I amplify 2 genes (PSEN2 and HN1), and the protocols are optimized for both and have been working fine. The other day I amplified HN1 for some...

21 February 2021 3,437 3 View

Can ethanol be used as an analgesic?

If ethanol has analgesic properties, why isn't it used for clinical purposes?

18 February 2021 8,227 4 View

Acid phenol:chloroform (25:24:1) for RNA extraction instead of (125:24:1)?

Hi everyone! I am about to extract RNA for RNA sequencing assays and my Invitrogen kit/protocol...

14 February 2021 1,755 3 View

Are there any public datasets of consumer complaints about service industries at the European level?

06 January 2021 1,718 2 View

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16 December 2020 9,657 5 View

Tools for analysis of interaction between lncRNAs and proteins/miRNAs?

Hi! I would like to know what tools I could use to analyze interactions between a new lncRNA and possible protein/miRNA targets. The biggest problem I had to find such tools is that the RNA we...

20 November 2020 8,331 3 View

I would like to ask some questions about concentrations of Urea 3M and 8M in two experiments?

I would like to ask if anyone knows if concentrations of Urea 3M and 8M can interfere with protein purification at Ni-NTA and Glutathione Sepharose 43 resins. Another question, Urea, at 3M and 8M...

17 November 2020 5,014 3 View

I would like to ask if anyone among you knows what is the ideal concentration of TFA to use at a chemical synthesis of peptides?

During a chemical synthesis of peptides by the F-moc method, the following happened: all the initial steps of the synthesis occurred as planned, but in the cleavage, TFA is used. In the lab, there...

02 November 2020 2,997 8 View

Can I use generalized linear mixed model to "fix" data absence?

I have some data of the diet of an omnivorous fish diet collected over 20 years. This data is divided in two seasons, the dry period (drought) and the wet period (flood), and I want to analyze the...

10 October 2020 6,546 6 View

Which is the best place in the world for the plant biotechnology research?

I am searching for a good place for the Post Doc,

02 March 2021 4,053 3 View

Would fecal samples stored at -20C for over a year impact metagenomic analysis?

Dear All, I have access to some rodent fecal samples that have been stored at -20C instead of -80C. Anyone have experience with the impact of stowage condition on comparative metagenomic analysis...

01 March 2021 2,512 1 View

Which bacteria are suitable for quorum sensing screening?

I want to find a quorum sensing inhibitor from plant extracts. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I looked for these strains...

01 March 2021 7,675 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

How to remove fatty material from plant extract?

The resultant solid was partitioned three times with 250 ml of petroleum ether (40-60/c) to remove any fatty material and evaporated to dryness.

28 February 2021 9,464 2 View

Good morning research fellows, Has anyone worked with senna alata plant extract on any kind of fish?

Literatures on the piscicidal effect of sennaa alata is scanty. if you have any related litrature either in the bark, leaves or roots used as treatment to any aquatic organism please kindly help...

28 February 2021 9,138 2 View

Is IMPACT FACTOR justified in case of Taxonomy?

There is huge pressure of getting good impact factor on scholars now a days. On the other hand Taxonomy is a very dry subject and the concerned papers can only get citation in same group of organism.

26 February 2021 5,851 1 View

What HPLC Marker(s) should be used to detect anthocyanins in a sample?

What HPLC Marker(s) or standard is used to detect and quantify anthocyanins such as Delphinidin, Cyanidin in a given sample of plant extract?

23 February 2021 1,832 4 View

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22 February 2021 9,932 11 View