Can I use acetic acid with an ELITE WAX Perkin Elmer column for Gas Chromatography?

Hi! I would want to know if I can use acetic acid with an ELITE WAX Perkin Elmer column for Gas Chromatography. This column has a polyethylene glycol phase, but I can't find the manual to check...

22 February 2021 730 2 View

In order to simulate a DWC in steady state, how to put the unit operations in the flowsheet of any process simulator?

14 January 2021 3,938 6 View

Which is the best bibliography to search for experimental data of process engineering?

16 December 2020 7,894 2 View

How to set Decouplers in control systems?

09 December 2020 1,409 5 View

Is there a MRI/DTI public database from epileptic patients?

I am looking for DTI/MRI data from epileptic patients for a MSc thesis. Regards

19 November 2020 5,435 3 View

Why do I keep getting smudged and wavy bands in certain lanes of my western blots?

Hi everyone, Been doing western blots for years now, recently however, whenever I run 2 gels, one of the gels would have a few lanes that exhibit wavy or smudgy bands at around 50 kDa (see...

16 November 2020 3,759 11 View

How to built a simulation of a chemical process?

12 September 2020 7,685 10 View

How to recode a short essay style question so that I can use it in SPSS?

Hi everyone, I am conducting an experiment for my dissertation. The manipulation I used consisted in asking people to recall and write down a particular episode in which they felt they had or had...

26 July 2020 6,540 1 View

Is it wrong to measure the mediating variable after the independent variable?

I am conducting an experiment for my dissertation. I want to put the mediator after the independent variable, in the survey flow. However, my supervisor told me that it is wrong to do so. The...

19 July 2020 5,883 5 View

Can the temperature/oxidation state alter the lifetime of an electronic transition?

Good Morning. Iv'e made Fe K-edge XAS measurements on a mineral with Fe3+ and Fe2+ atoms, looking for the pre-edge feature and using gaussian curves to fit the pre-edge assuming 4 quadrupole...

14 July 2020 8,092 4 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 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

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

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

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

Did anyone ever try using pLVX-TetOne Plasmid with a copGFP as a selection marker instead of Puromycin?

When using a lentiviral vector for inducible expression of genes using the Tet-On system. In the literature, I saw a widely used of pLVX-TetOne-Puro Plasmid, is there a reason why people prefer to...

25 February 2021 1,011 3 View

Why do the PCR bands from the cDNA templates (extraction from the cell after transfection) show different size from the band of the plasmid template?

After transfection with the plasmid ( linearized ) and subcloning of the cell lines, RNA was extracted from the cell and then reverse transcripted to cDNA. When PCR reactions were run to verify...

25 February 2021 5,712 3 View

How do I transfect a large plasmid into PC12 cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor?

I have a large 16 kb plasmid, which I need to transfect into PC12 cells. Lipofectamin 2000 didn't work and with GFP alone the transfection rate is very low. I also tried the neon invitrogen...

25 February 2021 6,635 5 View

Problem with ligating 2.8 kb insert into 8.5 kb plasmid?

I am trying to clone 2 copies of the same mammalian gene into the pSF-CMV-Ub-Puro Ascl (contains HindIII, KpnI and NheI cut sites) plasmid. This is what the final product is supposed to look like...

24 February 2021 6,310 3 View

Best plasmid could be used as a standard curve for AAV titration?

I have been trying to have a good AAV titration for my production and I have tried different plasmids to set up as a standard curve but each one behaves differently. i am trying to use ITR for...

23 February 2021 5,167 3 View