What is the cause of the banding obtained after purifying the PCR product with ExoSAPIT?

Hello We are working on a PCR product with an approximate size between 5000 and 7000 bp, we want to use it as a positive internal control, since we have sequenced it and it corresponds to the...

17 February 2021 2,896 3 View

CAT assay in microplate?

I'd like to know if anyone can provide me with a protocol for traditional catalase enzymatic assay in a 96 well microplate, for cell line and/or C.elegans spectrophotometric measurements. Thanks!

11 February 2021 7,273 3 View

GST assay in microplate?

I'd like to know if anyone can provide me with a protocol for traditional GST enzymatic assay (with GSH and CDNB as substrates) in a 96 well microplate, for cell line and/or C.elegans...

11 February 2021 1,328 3 View

Any good reference that links economic/industrial policy to changed agent behavior?

Usually industrial policy is interpreted as changing economic structure from in favor of more productive/advanced economic activities. But would like to read something that discusses the...

31 December 2020 3,199 3 View

How to calculate the necessary sample size for a subgroup descriptive analysis?

I want to do a descriptive analysis using the World Values Survey dataset which has an N=1200. However, even thought I have searched a lot, I haven't found the methodology or a tool to calculate...

17 November 2020 1,505 4 View

What is the relationship between plant hormones and plant allometry?

Hi, i'm looking for bibliographic references that explains the relationship between plant hormones and plant allometry (relation between the size of an organism and aspects of its physiology and...

21 September 2020 9,653 6 View

Why does the value of fresh and dry weight change in a plant?

In an experiment I found that the fresh weight of the root was less than that of the stem, however when I found the dry weight, the weight of the stem was less than that of the root. Why are these...

20 September 2020 2,269 16 View

Has anynone successfully used NEB's TtAgo (Thermus Thermophilus Argonaute) for any type of application?

I have been trying to use NEB's TtAgo (https://www.neb.com/products/m0665-ttago) to linearize supercoiled plasmids, following NEB's recommendations, but I haven't had any success yet (19/19 failed...

09 September 2020 2,112 1 View

How to customize a 'plt.var' plot from CCA package?

Hello, I'm trying to customize a CCA biplot made with the plt.var function from the CCA package. I need to reduce the size of the labels or be able to move those labels because they overlap on...

31 July 2020 2,938 3 View

What does it really mean to "hold other variables constant" in a regression?

To illustrate my point I present you an hypothetical case with the following equation: wage=C+0.5education+0.3rural area ( Where the variable "education" measures the number of years of...

10 July 2020 2,839 12 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

Is there any test to determine the cardiovascular risk of patients with obesity? from the perspective of obesity?

We found tests to determine cardiovascular risk taking into account lipid profile, blood pressure, age, history of diabetes, other laboratories. But when weight is involved, there is a paradox. I...

02 March 2021 6,036 1 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

What SPSS analysis should I run with one IV (with two levels) and two DVs?

Hi, I am trying to figure out which test would be most appropriate to run for the following question: Is there a difference in task blood pressure between smokers and non-smokers? There are two...

01 March 2021 8,235 2 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

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

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 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