Is it right to have exactly same acronym (IJPBS) for 2 different journal names?

08 September 2015 860 5 View

What is your experience with 1xTAE buffer for PFGE electrophoresis?

experience with 1xTAE buffer for PFGE electrophoresis!

31 December 2014 1,713 2 View

Is anyone using the NEB Lambda ladder PFG Marker?

10 November 2014 7,623 12 View

Have you tried in-house preparation of the restriction buffer?

10 November 2014 9,064 1 View

Why am I not able to change/adjust the parameters (in. switch and fin. switch time and total run time) in the power module of CHEF DRIII?

08 September 2014 9,985 4 View

What are the prospectives of additives for synergism along with antibiotics against antibiotic resistant bacteria?

Synergism along with antibiotics against antibiotic resistant bacteria!

08 September 2014 9,023 9 View

Do we still stick to the idea of three room rule for PCR Laboratory: separate room for extraction; reaction set up; and cycler location?

PCR Laboratory!

07 August 2014 8,834 3 View

Is this social media trend raising awareness of a little-known disease or just trivialising serious illness- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis through IBC

ALS ice bucket challenge!

07 August 2014 1,299 1 View

In a bacterial semisolid stock if there is fungal contamination, how would you separate out the bacteria from contaminant fungus?

07 August 2014 7,855 13 View

In the direct manual DNA extraction from bacterial cells were you amused to see at times DNA being only along with sediment at the bottom?

In the direct manual DNA extraction from bacterial cells DNA has to be in the supernatant, but were you amused to see at times DNA being only along with the sediment? For Gram negative bacteria...

07 August 2014 5,111 3 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 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

How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Where can I find public datasets with Covid-19 patient information?

Hi, I'm looking for public datasets that have CT, X-ray information, or medical records for patients with Covid-19. Does anyone have suggestions?

28 February 2021 4,760 3 View

How to get rid of somebody pretending to be the author of a publication?

One of the publication I co-authored has the author's name in abbreviation. Then, somebody whose nothing to do with that paper acquired it as her work. To whom in this RG shall I ask for a hand,...

27 February 2021 4,206 4 View