Why DNA skein and DNA pellet were not seen during salting out DNA extraction method?

I use salting out DNA extraction methods . But recently after adding the ethanol we couldn't saw the DNA skein and DNA pellet . Finally the results of nano drop indicated that extracted DNA have...

08 September 2019 1,829 1 View

How can i extract miRNa from saliva samples efficiently ?

Recently we decide to evaluate the miRNA expression levels in saliva sample as diagnostic biomarker of cancer . We used TRIzol extraction methods but the CT of real-time PCR for U6 gene was...

08 September 2019 1,369 3 View

What is the serum IL-6 level in human ?

Recently we evaluate the serum IL-6 level in patients after radiotherapy . Unfortunately 4 of 7 samples are negative. we used the thermo fisher ELISA kit for this aim and 100 microliter of...

07 August 2019 2,658 5 View

Is there differences between PBMC and WBC in ionizing radiation responses?

04 May 2019 8,005 5 View

How can i access the Miranda web page ?

unfortunately during this month i couldn't access to the miranda microRNA target prediction tool web page . http://www.microrna.org/ is the web page address was changed ?

05 June 2018 9,323 0 View

How can i access to the LncRNA sequences?

I want to design primer for the lncRNA entitled nonhsat062994 but i can't find it at NCBI. how can i access to the sequence of this RNA?

04 May 2018 8,641 4 View

How can i solve the agarose gel problem ?

My friend sent me the agarose gel results. As seen in attached figure lower range of gel was dark and , i cant see any band in this region . how can i solve this problem?

11 December 2017 4,915 0 View

How can I extract DNAparaffin embedded tissues with mineral oil?

Recently two study indicated that mineral oil can be used for Dna extraction. Is there anyone who has the experience about this method?

10 November 2017 4,236 5 View

How can i predict that targeting a gene with siRNA lead to specific pathway inhibition ?

Recently we want to target a gene with siRNA , but i have a critical question how can i make sure that downstream pathway of this genes will be affected . on the other hand ho can i predict...

10 November 2017 1,899 3 View

Why the lan of sds page aren't smoth?

08 September 2017 7,829 3 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 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

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View