What are the effects of longer exposure to siRNA (for KD)?

1) I knocked down a protein and collected cells 24 h and 72 h after transfection with Lipofectamine (to note, 5 h after transfection medium was replaced with medium with FBS). 2) KD efficiency...

08 December 2020 9,850 1 View

Why is hard to produce antibodies that are specific to a protein?

Some antibodies reveal nonspecific bands when a western blot is performed. Why is hard to find a good antibody for a protein? Antibodies produced using as the immunogen a synthetic peptide or a...

03 December 2020 208 3 View

Why different antibodies for the same protein stain different places?

I tried two antibodies and one show stain in the cytoplasm and the other one in the nucleus. Why? (Blue - dapi; red - mitochondria; green - protein of interest) And why is hard to find a good...

24 November 2020 6,612 7 View

Do you have experience visualising multiplex amplification curves in LightCycler 480 Sw??

We are using Cobas z480 for multiplex RT-PCR using 3 taqman probes FAM/VIX/CY5. Once the PCR finish we want to see in the amplification curve the three results for each sample at the same time....

28 October 2020 8,372 1 View

TEACHING ESL in the lockdown - participants needed?

Dear English lecturers (teachers, instructors), I am conducting research into ESL teaching to increase our understanding of how teachers have experienced special teaching conditions during the...

14 October 2020 7,223 6 View

Why does mitotracker red stains the nucleus?

I'm working with NT2 cells and I use mitrotracker red (400 nM) to stain the mitochondria. I incubate it with cell medium for 30 min, fix with 4% PFA, permeabilize with PBST (0.2%-0.5% Triton...

11 August 2020 8,076 3 View

What psychometric properties should be reported for a translated version of a questionnaire?

Dear collegues, I performed a cross-cultural study using two questionnaires (66 and 12 items). The original version of these questionnaires was used in the first country, and these tools were...

27 April 2020 4,097 9 View

USRP N210_ RF1 and RF2 dont work ?

Hi, I am working on USRP N210 and Matlab 2016R. I want a transfer a Sinusoidal wave from one port of Antenna and want to receive same wave from second Antenna at one USRP N210 (unfortinaly I...

28 January 2020 5,568 3 View

Problem in modulating miRNA expression (both over-expression and knock-down) in mouse cell lines?

Hi everybody, we are working with let-7 family and we would like to perform knock-down of the let-7 using Lin28 expression vector. In another experiment we would like to over-express let-7g from a...

20 September 2017 9,420 2 View

Can anyone help with a PCR insertion/deletion genotyping problem?

09 July 2014 4,184 3 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

02 March 2021 9,706 5 View

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02 March 2021 932 1 View

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

How does Scientist/RG community evaluates a case study article and the impact of it on a researcher career?

An article that is published as a case study in the SJR listed journal. How much value is added to a researcher career? How it is evaluated by a scientific researcher/University admission...

02 March 2021 9,661 3 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