CTAB DNA extraction method for insects?

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If i want to test a particular compound/metabolite on my yeast strains ?

If i want to test a particular compound/metabolite on my yeast strains ( which have been transformed with the desired disease plasmid and shows the phenotype) . Then what is the method that I...

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Area under disease progress curve?

In plant pathology experiments generally disease severity measured in terms of grades of affected leaf area in relation to time is used for plotting the area under the disease progress...

05 June 2018 7,948 0 View

Which is better to suspend extracted DNA?

Which is a better one to suspend extracted DNA? TE buffer or ultrapure water?

05 June 2018 3,821 4 View

Long term storage of leaf tissue in CTAB buffer?

Can a leaf tissue be suspended in CTAB buffer until its DNA extraction? like for example if i go to a field and collect the leaf tissue and suspend the leaf tissues in CTAB in an eppendorf tube...

05 June 2018 1,556 1 View

Avoiding clumping of DNA ladder?

my 100 bp and 1kb ladder are not separating properly in gel inspite of providing the optimum agarose concentration, voltage and running time. the individual size bands dont spatially separate...

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Pre heating of CTAB buffer?

In what way does preheating of CTAB buffer prior to DNA extraction from leaf tissues improve the efficacy of DNA extraction or DNA recovery

05 June 2018 3,579 4 View

Preserving clones in glycerol stock?

I have cloned my virus in puc 18 vector. Right now Iam maintaining the clones by repeated subculture on lb medium amended with ampicillin. Is it possible to maintain the clones in glycerol...

04 May 2018 3,469 2 View

Increased manganese availability in flooded soils?

plants like paddy dont suffer from manganese deficiency since they are grown in flooded soils? what is the reason for the increased availability of manganese in flooded soils?

03 April 2018 1,479 3 View

Readymix of mastermix and long term storage?

Is it possible to make a readymix of PCR reaction cocktail involving components like water, dntps, taq polymerase etc. and keep it under long term storage for future use or should we use the mix...

03 April 2018 9,805 3 View

DNA storage at minus 80 degree?

Can we store DNA (diluted with sterile distilled water of milliq water) at minus 80 degree celsius ?

02 March 2018 9,940 9 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

Buffer to disrupt platelet alpha granules for PF4 quantification?

Hello! I want to quantify by ELISA the secreted (from platelets poor plasma) and the non-secreted (from platelet lysate) PF4 before and after TRAP stimulation. I will use the ELISA from R&D...

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Buffer Exchange using column packed with sephadex G-25 effect on protein concentration?

Hello, If i am doing a buffer exchange for an antibody of 1mg/mL, does the elution lose protein in the process of buffer exchange? For example, if i flow through 500 uL of 1mg/mL sample, and...

03 March 2021 6,299 3 View

What is the status of bread making and more bakery foods with the use of insect flour/powder?

Insects have been consumed by human diet since prehistoric times. At present, the idea of looking at insects as food has been getting traction worldwide, also in response to increasing food...

03 March 2021 6,223 5 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

How optimize the Size Exclusion Chromatography?

Hello! I'll do a size exclusion chromatography, but I only have an open column, and I'll perform the peptide extraction from yeast, using buffer lysis (sodium phosphate 50 mM/NaCl 30 mM/DNAse and...

01 March 2021 2,215 2 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

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What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

Why are my bands weird in this Agarose gel?

Can someone please give me some possible things that could go wrong? Here is my recipe: 0.5g Agarose 50 mL of TAE 1x 1 uL ethyl bromide. Gel was run at 100V for 1 hour. The buffer used is also TAE.

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