Degenerated primers for sequencing?

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Consequences of excess bases in the MCS after digestion?

Good morning, I am trying to produce a recombinant protein. Unfortunately I one of the two restriction enzymes that I use do not cut at the end of the MCS. After the digestion 15 nucleotides of...

17 July 2024 2,787 4 View

Is perfusion required to stain brain tissue with every method?

I'm looking to immunostain some brain tissue collected previously. The animal was *not* perfused prior to tissue collection. Will the presence of blood interfere with all staining methods...

14 July 2024 177 4 View

Is there a validated questionnaire for target audience research?

Hi everyone, I am currently writing my masters thesis about Strategic Sponsor Acquisition in Youth Women's Soccer. The aim of the study is to identify potential sponsors for a specific youth...

04 July 2024 9,001 0 View

Posting a research survey ?

Hi i want to post this in various groups, how do i do that ? hey, please do my survey when you get the chance, it will take 15 minutes tops x I am looking for UK secondary school teachers to...

30 June 2024 9,594 2 View

Can I use richer media to increase bacterial expression of human protein?

We're using LB media, 1mM IPTG, and letting it incubate at 18°C over night. Will adding glucose or something else to the media increase bacterial expression?

06 June 2024 6,071 1 View

How to scale up or down a restriction enzyme reaction?

Hi I am trying to set up the reactions with my plasmid, insert and RE. Usually the standard final volume is 20 uL or 50 uL (it depends on the protocol provided by the manufacturer) with 1 ug of...

28 May 2024 1,105 3 View

Algae contamination on hydroponic cultures for Arabidopsis thaliana?

Hi everyone, I'm having trouble with my hydroponic cultures for Arabidopsis thaliana, since lately I've started having algae contamination on them. I have tried using several sterilization...

21 May 2024 4,840 1 View

How to set up a restriction enzyme reaction?

I'm a doctoral student with early experiences with recombinant protein synthesis. Since I still have to start my experiment and I do not yet know the quantities of DNA and plasmid that I will...

19 May 2024 5,171 3 View

What is recommended as a strong and current reference of phenomenological analysis ?

What is recommended as a strong and current reference of qualitative phenomenological analysis ?

16 May 2024 2,142 1 View

Is there any guide to perform statistical analysis of transcriptomics?

I am looking for a some chapter or book related to the statistical analysis of mRNA transcriptomics. Thank you;)

09 May 2024 6,543 2 View

I can't see the ssDNA band after performing asymmetric PCR. Is there any way to do this?

After performing symmetric PCR, PCR purification was performed. Afterwards, asymmetric PCR was performed using the PCR purification product as a template, but no ssDNA band was confirmed in the...

08 August 2024 1,666 3 View

Anyone having idea about VN primer for miRNA primer design ?

How to design VN primer to attach with universal reverse primer

05 August 2024 2,113 3 View

Why after performing site directed mutagenesis ,I don't see any colony after transformation?

I want to introduce a point mutation (change in one nucleotide) into my gene of interest (DNA binding domain) I have designed primers as recommended on the Data sheet of the kit : -Both primers...

05 August 2024 9,056 3 View

Who of all the Global Scientific community will help me Prof. Dr. Yoshida make way for TPEOM, MEC ~EMC to return the atmospheric gases to the norma ?

TEP presentation caption (The Environmental Project) Re: Why should Washington’s DC, or any country government point of location think of as nowadays of as to being 'tomorrow as to come! if it...

03 August 2024 2,483 1 View

How is the bacterial genome's high protein count verified as genuine despite 800+ contigs and good metrics (98.55%completeness, 0.68% contamination)?

Given that the bacterial genome has over 800 contigs, but its quality metrics are good, with a completeness of 98.55% and a contamination of 0.68% as assessed by CheckM, what specific validation...

01 August 2024 1,514 1 View

I'm optimizing a tetra-ARMS PCR protocol with amplicon sizes: 165bp, 123bp and 93bp. Why, in the gel, only 165bp is visible while I'm expecting all 3?

It's an end-point PCR protocol. I'm using 1.5% agarose gel with SyBR Safe dye and TBE as a running buffer, visualization on BioRad XR+ system. I was primarily thinking of primer efficiency,...

01 August 2024 4,672 4 View

PCR showing no bands - Master mix and primers didn't mix?

Hello everyone, I performed a PCR yesterday, and the results showed no bands on the gel. Of course, I probably missed some crucial steps, like adding my samples to the PCR strips themselves, for...

31 July 2024 2,404 6 View

How to retain amplicon yield after Ampure bead cleanup, following a 2-stage PCR protocol?

Hello all, I have been trying to follow a 2-stage PCR protocol used to amplify barcodes of a large yeast library, as per Nyugen et al. (2022) -...

30 July 2024 840 2 View

Recovery Viurses from bacteria genome?

Hello everyone, I am currently looking for tools to recovery viral genomes from bacterial genomes, not metagenomes. However, I have only found tools that are designed for retrieving and studying...

28 July 2024 8,952 1 View

Do you mix and add all primers together in a singel PCR reaction (4 total primers for 2 mutations) when using Agilent's multi-site mutagenesis kit?

I want to introduce 2 mutations using Agilent's multi-site mutagenesis kit, I designed the primers using their online tool and it gave me 2 sets for primers (1 set for each mutation) so I was...

25 July 2024 6,517 3 View