Which primers sets(Sense two sets) Antisense(Two sets) I should use in conventional PCR? Two sense and two antisense primers what does it means?

Dear Researchers, I have read an article and there are two set of primer pairs. Sense primers and antisense primers. The paragraph from the article is as [ The partial DNA-dependent RNA...

31 December 2019 7,502 7 View

Can anyone help in SOD activity buffers?

In 3ml, how can I make all these buffers, I have read this paper for SOD activity, Please find below [The 3 ml reaction mixture contained 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0), 0.5 mM...

06 July 2019 3,610 6 View

Is there any easy method to get Jasmonic acids from wheat plants?

Dear All, I need to check the growth promoting effects of some bacterial antagonists. I want to obtain the jasmonic acid and other growth promoting hormones. Then I want to do LCMS. Any step by...

05 June 2019 2,520 4 View

How to prepare solution for GC-MS/LC-MS/HPLC from the barley root exudates/leaf extracts?

I want to check some metabolites from the root exudates or leaf extracts. Than I want to check the metabolites concentration like Jasmonic acid, via GC-MS, LC-MS or HPLC. Can anyone explain me...

03 April 2019 3,325 5 View

Can anyone explain PERMANOVA pairwise results?

Dear All, Can anyone explain the pairwise permanova for the group 1 and Group 2. The data is given as below: Group 1 Group 2 Sample size Permutations pseudo-F p-value q-value A C 12 999...

11 December 2018 5,320 0 View

How can I count conidia on the PDA petriplates incubated for two weeks with haemocytomer?

I have a haemocytometer with 25 major grids and each grid is divided into 16 small grids, The dept is 0.1mm. I put 10 ml ddH20 in petriplates and rub to get spores. I take 10ul from that 10 ml...

01 February 2018 2,594 1 View

What is the definition of the strains in terms of fungi?

Dear All, I have read several papers like these: twelve strains of fungus Trichoderma harzianum were evaluated against Phytopathogen. So in these case what would be the definition of strains?

10 November 2017 6,147 10 View

Can someone recommend a proper procedure for extractions of antibiotics and peptides from the fungi?

Dear All, I want to extract antibiotics and peptides from a fungi. Is there any proper procedure to extract antibiotics from the fungi.

10 November 2017 6,618 3 View

Could not get a good and clear band in the Gell electrophoresis?

I run the Gell for DNA of some of samples. However some DNA bands were thinner some were more thicker in size and some of them were like smear from top to bottom. What could be the reason?

10 November 2017 9,762 4 View

How can I measure the percent inhibition of a plant pathogen caused by bi-control fungus?

Dear All, I have cultured two fungi one 9cm petri plates. The growth of biocontrol agent is very slow but it has potential to parasitize a plant pathogen. I want to measure the percent inhibition...

10 November 2017 4,934 3 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View

What is the best concentration of cDNA to be used for qPCR?

I have synthesised cDNA from 500ng/ul of RNA. The concentration of the cDNA Is about 5000ng/ul. Should I dilute my cDNA or just use it as it is for my qPCR? I usually use 2ul of cDNA for a 20ul...

24 February 2021 8,618 3 View

Recommendations on homogenizers for RNA isolation?

I will be performing RNA isolation with frozen lung biopsy samples and am in the market for a tissue homogenizer. I am wanting a homogenizer that will fit in a 1.5ml tube. I was looking at the...

24 February 2021 3,623 3 View

RNA-seq DEGs downstream analysis and reporting in literature?

I used EdgeR to get the list of DEGs (differentially expressed genes) from my liver RNA-seq experiment. I have done the gene overrepresentation and GSEA based pathway analysis. I am currently...

23 February 2021 8,969 1 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

RNA degraded after good nanodrop readings?

23 February 2021 8,850 2 View

Is there a way to extract total RNA and protein from cell culture at the same time, without denaturing protein?

Hi all, Is there a way to extract RNA and protein from the same cell culture sample? Because we need to use the protein for gelatin zymography at later time, we are looking for a method that can...

22 February 2021 5,341 5 View