Questio regarding micro/nano particles fabrication ?

I will start to fabricate micro/nanoparticles for growth factor release and I check out a procedure quite nice, however, it is lacking some details and since I don't have much knowledge doing this...

20 February 2021 199 2 View

How do you prepare a standard dilution for qPCR?

I am very new to quantitative PCR and need some help for this technique. For my experiment, I need to perform a quantitative reverse transcription PCR. I extract the RNA from my pellet and...

05 February 2021 9,834 4 View

Can I modify vermiculite or perlite by adding nutrients to control a certain situation?

I need to assimilate a determining condition for the plant. However, I need to ask you if it is possible to change the properties and concentration of plant nutrients in this material like perlite...

04 February 2021 8,616 11 View

What is the half-life of TNF-alpha in vitro?

I'm designing a low-grade chronic treatment with this cytokine and I'm wondering how regularly to change the culture medium based on the half-life of the protein in an in vitro environment....

24 January 2021 5,988 2 View

Which sampling techniques can be used for huge flying insects?

Tropidacris collaris is a grasshopper. Adults, which can reach more than 15 of length, are strong flyers and actually they resemble small birds or bats. Most of the time T. collaris is found in...

13 January 2021 3,735 5 View

Does freezing treated cell pellet at -80C damages them?

Hello, I hope you are all doing well. I have a question regarding my treated cells group. I plan to do western blot and qRT-PCR for my treated cells. However, to save time, I would like to...

06 December 2020 1,390 5 View

Why do some primers have transcript variants/unintended templates for different genes?

Good day, I hope you are all doing well. I was designing primers for Caspase 9 and sometimes, the designed primers in NCBI have transcript variants for the same gene (Caspase 9) but at the same...

05 October 2020 352 3 View

Do I need to design forward and reverse primers within an exon region for QRT-PCR?

Good day, I hope you are all well. I am new in designing primers for quantitative reverse transcription PCR. I am using NCBI to design my primers and my question is: Do I have to design my...

04 October 2020 7,678 7 View

Why is my molecular rotor displaying a bathochromic shift in toluene compared to MeOH or EtOH?

Hello, I am studying the photophysical properties of a molecular rotor which unexcpectedly, shows a lambda(max, absorption) = 565 nm in toluene, but a lambda (max, absorption) = 540 nm in MeOH...

15 September 2020 7,830 3 View

Animals - Special Issue, "Learning Theory Applied to the Welfare of Animals", looking to submit?

Dear Colleagues, Please see the following link and information for more details. If you are thinking about submitting, please feel free to reach out to me directly here or at...

09 September 2020 6,361 1 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

Will a 10xHis-tag prevent anti-MBP from binding to MBP?

I have a protein with a 10xHis-MBP tag on the N-terminus. I'm fairly certain I am expressing my protein, but I'm not getting a signal on my western blot. Is there a possibility that the 10xHis tag...

25 February 2021 8,404 3 View