Is it possible to perform cardiac puncture followed by PBS perfusion with a pump?

Hello all, I will be perfusing mice with PBS for brain harvest and a colleague would like to collect the blood via cardiac puncture (these are 18m old mice so would be nice to maximize use). Has...

15 February 2021 5,312 2 View

What is the difference between blocking buffer tbs vs. pbs and which should I use?

Hi everybody! I am doing western blots on bovine mammary epithelial cells to determine casein. We have two types of blocking buffer in the lab. PBS:...

01 February 2021 9,278 5 View

What types of tubes should I use for allantoin assay?

Hi everyone, I am doing an allantoin assay in urine and all the protocols seem pretty vague. I am currently using this website which seems to be the most helpful:...

07 January 2021 8,023 3 View

What is growing inside a frozen 10X Ripa buffer?

Hello all! I have a strange question today...I noticed that a few of my aliquotted 10x RIPA buffers that were in the -20 C had some kind of potential mold (white balls, some clusters, some with...

20 December 2020 7,424 3 View

Prediction of novel precursor miRNAs in viral genomes?

Dear, I performed a multi-sequence alignment (MSA) with all the complete genome sequences of SARS-related viruses. I then used RNALalifold from the ViennaRNA package, with default parameters, to...

06 December 2020 1,704 3 View

What are these called?

Upon tissue plating for cell isolation, I start to see fibroblasts and after a while these 3D structures start to form. Are they called stroma? Someone in my building told me that she calls them...

30 November 2020 8,685 4 View

Using multiple linear regression to solve a multiple-way ANOVA problem?

Specifically, I want to know if I can use multiple linear regression to predict a response value 'y' from it's associated "treatment" or "group" averages in several variables. Let's say:...

04 November 2020 632 19 View

Plated Secretory Tissue from Udder--What type of cells are these?

Hello all! I plated some secretory tissue from the udder of a dairy cow. I am trying to isolate mammary epithelial cells. I found these cells on one of my plates, are these developing mammary...

28 October 2020 7,768 3 View

How difficult is Lysosensor to use in the lab?

How difficult is Lysosensor to use in a basic cell culture wet lab? Does anybody happen to have any advice and/or experience with this or similar probes? Thanks in advance!

15 September 2020 8,730 7 View

Quand est ce qu'un chercheur peut-il se sentir satisfait de ses publications?

18 May 2020 7,762 2 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View

Can I use carbo-free blocking solution in place of normal goat serum?

I'm looking to try this in place of normal goat serum for a wisteria floribunda lectin stain. In my IF protocol, 10% of the final volume of my blocking solution is goat serum. If I were to go the...

07 February 2021 7,520 6 View

Working with insect primary cells in cell medium and in saline solution?

I work with insect primary cells, which I let grow in TC100 insect medium. For fluorescence measurements I have to discard medium (because of its fluorescence properties) and give a saline...

28 January 2021 3,867 1 View

How to measure Tg (Glass Transition) in lyophilised sugar/protein matrices using DSC?

I have been attempting to measure the glass transition temperature of various amorphous powders consisting of sugar/protein mixtures and have had little luck. I typically use a scanning rate of...

13 January 2021 10,022 3 View

Co-stain Lectin PNA FITC conjugate with an uncojugated primary antibody?

Hello, I am planning to stain retinal tissue sections for IHC and want to co-stain cones and rods. For this we plan on using a Lectin PNA From Arachis hypogaea (peanut), FITC Conjugate for cones...

12 January 2021 583 1 View

Most appropriate fit of a standard curve in an enzym-linked lectin assay?

Dear all, I have a question regarding the most appropriate fit of a standard curve in an enzyme-linked lectin assay set-up to quantify the amount of mucin secretion in conjunctival explant...

03 January 2021 1,010 6 View

Can xylose be formed from fructose over acid catalysts?

I am new in the field of sugar chemistry. I wanted to know if it is possible for fructose to be converted to xylose over acidic conditions. I saw in some schemes a pathway from fructose to xylose...

07 December 2020 5,247 3 View

How to calculate the amount of glucose from the color of Benedict solution?

I'm planning to use Benidict solution to do research on the amount of glucose in candy, but I'm not sure how to calculate the specific amount of sugar from the Benedict solution. Is there a way to...

10 November 2020 1,380 3 View

Can anyone kindly explain me about the chirality of DNA?

As DNA is a macromolecule made up of sugar, phosphates and bases than how can we consider it as a molecule? And secondly which type of experiments we can run to test for the chirality of it? There...

28 October 2020 8,583 3 View

List down the ways one can extract sugar from a fruit / What is the best way to extract sugar from a fruit?

I am conducting research on the Production of Granulated Sugar from Soursop (Annona muricata Linnaeus) Extract. Are there any simple ways I could extract sugar without the use of too many...

27 October 2020 1,349 6 View