Can someone help me with Plate assay for Lipase production screening please?

Does Anyone have expertise in in vitro transcription and RNA pull down assay?

I am currently working on LncRNA; to know the lncRNA-protein interactions I want to do RNA pull down assay, so I need to design primers with T7 promoter. I need assistance in this regard.

07 August 2024 6,622 1 View

Is changing the medium during the experiment overestimate the results?

I am experimenting with cancer and non-cancer cells in a 12-well plate for 4 days with a seeding density 1*10^4/well, however, I noticed that the control group growth rate slows down on D3. Should...

07 August 2024 2,283 2 View

How to normalize and take the significance of the MTT OD values with 3 replicates for the same cell-line?

Hi, I have a question about normalizing the MTT OD values for doing the statistical analysis. So, if we have 3 different plates and we call them 3 different replicates, so, first we would...

07 August 2024 8,106 4 View

How to improve plaques in Double Layer Agar Assay?

Hi all! My thesis groupmates and I are working on purifying an E. coli bacteriophage. The phage was handed down to us by the previous thesis group, but they only managed to purify it to about...

06 August 2024 5,801 4 View

Can you recommend a 96-well plate for minimal cell adherence to the wells during phagocytosis experiments?

I have been performing short phagocytosis experiments using 96-round bottom, tissue culture treated, well plates (Falcon, 353077). I culture the cells with the phagocytic cargo for 2-4hrs, wash...

04 August 2024 5,228 4 View

PBMC infection with virus?

In my study, I intend to infect PBMCs with SARS-CoV-2. After that, I will analyze NK cells by flow cytometry to see if their phenotype changes or if they show degranulation. After the infection, I...

01 August 2024 4,403 4 View

Found this object in the cell culture - do you have any suggestions what it might be?

Dear researchers, Today, we found this object in one of the wells of a 96wp culture plate. The plate contained MEC-1 cells and GelTrex. I am quite curious what this is (because it's not cells). Do...

01 August 2024 2,250 2 View

Publishing a checklist?

Does anybody know of entomological Journals without page charges that would publish an extensive checklist (Hong Kong Aculeates wasps) covering 350 species (of which more than half are new to Hong...

01 August 2024 6,134 2 View

How do we pick data for determination of Validation Acceptance Criteria?

Hello, colleagues! There is commenting open for new upcoming edition of USP 1033. Validation target acceptance criteria is now different from what it used to be and it doesn't include Cpm....

23 July 2024 7,292 3 View

HEC 1A & HEC1B Cell Lines?

Hi, Kindly guide me that how many cells of HEC1A & HEC1B Cell lines should I seed for Wound healing assay and which plate type is recommended 6, 12 & 24?. Articles suggested mainly 24...

20 July 2024 4,143 2 View

Maurice Ekpenyong

What kind of help do you need. Please see the attached document.Article Selection of Enterobacter cloacae Strain POPE6 for Fermentat...

Pooja Singh

Thanks. will try this.

In another work 2.5% olive oil was used instead of Tween-80. But I was not sure what solvent was used for this. I will try with tween-80. Thanks.

I think you should keep the concentration of your carbon source at 1% so it does not become inhibitory and therefore counterproductive leading from negative results.