How to avoid ATP degradation while performing ATP assay?

I am using the ATP Assay Kit (Colorimetric/Fluorometric) (ab83355) for measuring intracellular ATP from treated cell lines. Although my standards are wokring fine when using the fluorometric...

15 February 2021 3,746 4 View

What is the method of removing RNase contamination from a filter paper surface?

I am working on a biosensing project on paper substrate, however, it is found that the RNase contamination occurs on the filter paper. Might I ask is there any method to clean the paper surface...

12 February 2021 3,926 3 View

What is causing the raw fluorescence to be negative?

Hi everyone, I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me when and why a raw fluorescence starts below zero. In the picture attached below the blue colour curve starts from a negative...

09 February 2021 4,642 3 View

Regarding immunology, transmissivity, herd immunity and vaccines in Sars CoV-2?

This is a follow-up on an earlier question regarding mechanistics of vaccines: why current vaccines don't block transmission. In summary, they don't engage mucosal immune cells to produce IgA....

08 February 2021 8,321 3 View

How can I enter the load increment values to the Abaqus?

In Abaqus I know that there are two methods for incrementation (Automatic and fixed incrementation). I want to control the incrementation by myself. I want to input the values of load increment...

03 February 2021 6,943 3 View

Which photsynthetic machine is good to use for measruing photysnthesis and CO2 assimilation for Arabidopsis?

Hi all, we are looking to buy a photosynthesis meter that can potentially measure photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, CO2 assimilation, PS1 and PSII efficiency (if possible), etc. it would...

02 February 2021 5,223 3 View

Distortion problem in Abaqus explicit?

Dear all. I'm modeling the RC column with cyclic displacement by Abaqus-Explicit. The concrete model used Concrete Plastic Damage model. However I'm facing with a error about the excessive...

01 February 2021 7,726 1 View

Why the difference between degrees of nonclassicality of the input states is required for nonzero entanglement in the output state of a beam splitter?

By considering two single-mode Gaussian states at the input of a beam splitter, it is seen that the entanglement of the output two-mode Gaussian state depends on the difference between the degrees...

22 January 2021 3,490 3 View

I am finding a lot of cellular debris in the culture flask? What are the reason behind it?

I am facing a problem that cellular debris observed in my SHSY5Y cells. I have seeded the cells in DMEM media with 10% FBS in T-25/ 60mm dish (antibiotic used PEN-Strepand gentamycin). I have also...

17 January 2021 3,074 3 View

Hi Everyone. I want to conduct DEMATEL analysis for my survey. Everything is in line except the MAXIMUM MEAN DE-ENTROPY (MMDE) ALGORITHM. Need help ?

I can't find any manual or procedure on how to conduct the MMDE process. It looks like most of the literature has copy-pasted the stuff without any method of how to do to it. Any practical book,...

07 January 2021 1,804 2 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

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28 February 2021 9,936 2 View

Has anyone had luck using cell lines other than HEK 293 (such as COS1) to package lentivirus?

I am looking to package lentivirus in endothelial cells but I am opposed to using 293 cells due to personal ethics regarding the source. I have done some reading and saw that COS1, COS7, & CHO...

25 February 2021 3,030 1 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View