Has anyone tried to scan fluorescence IHC slides with microarray scanner?

I have an old slide microarray scanner (VIDAR Revolution 4200) and would like to give it a "second life", as IHC scanner array (fluorescence dyes), FISH over tissue or similar. Has anyone tried...

24 February 2021 9,210 1 View

Different antibodies show signal at same MW in SDS-PAGE, what is wrong?

16 February 2021 2,857 9 View

The modern system of international relations: unipolar or multipolar world?

Do you think that there is one center of power in the modern world, or are all countries equal in the international arena?

01 January 2021 7,026 2 View

Mie scattering of a Gaussian with curved wavefront by a sphere?

Can anyone please suggest some references? I would like to simulate scattering of a fundamental mode of a fiber by a microsphere. I am only familiar with a plane wave case, but in case of a curved...

01 January 2021 1,440 3 View

Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit 260/230 contamination?

I've been trying to extract DNA from rat liver tissue using Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit. I followed handbook procedure and all of my samples had low 260/230 (

21 December 2020 7,100 3 View

Student's t-test or DeSeq2 for RNA-Seq data analysis?

Hi everybody, I am analysing RNA-Seq data of patient samples. One group of samples has a certain monoallelic deletion, the other group 2 copies of the wildtype gene. Now, I want to compare the...

28 November 2020 5,977 3 View

Cre-loxp system does not work (lines #017455 and #017320, JAX). Why?

We bought this year two lines (#017455 and #017320) to get specific expression of channelrhodopsin2 (ChETA, in this case) in parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons. We hoped that crossing a mouse...

16 November 2020 8,701 1 View

Why after cloning recombinant pET in E. coli DH5a I get a very low plasmid yield after extraction?

I chemically transformed a ligation product (pET28a and my gene of 3051 bp) into E coli DH5alpha competent cells. I plated 200 and 800 ml of my transformation on plates of LB agar Kan (25 mg/ml)....

13 September 2020 4,421 3 View

Good markers to distinguish D1R/D2R striatal medium spiny neurons?

Hi! I want to distinguish D1R and D2R subpopulations of medium spiny neurons in striatum in immunofluorescence. Most of the papers I found use transgenic EGFP mice targeting this receptors, but I...

31 August 2020 3,863 2 View

does anyone have the user manual of the geostrain program?

Hello, I am looking for the user manual of the geostrain software, I have downloaded the software but the user manual is not found. I will be very grateful for your help Cheers

14 June 2020 4,169 1 View

How can I measure MMP-1 protein activity or protein level from liver tissue?

Instead of checking only the mRNA level, I want to check the active protein level of MMP-1 in Liver tissue from mice. How can I do that?

03 March 2021 1,763 2 View

Does any one know how i can prepare liver tissue with transmission electron microscope with good fixation?

i have problem in preparation of liver tissue with bad cell organelles and how i can adjust osmolarity

03 March 2021 8,890 1 View

Interested to stain mice tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, anybody has a protocol to recommend?

Interested to stain mice brain tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, appreciate if anyone willing to offer me some guidance or suggestions! Thank you!

28 February 2021 3,951 2 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

B-mercaptoethanol (BME) protocol?

Hi everybody, I have been running a multiplex IHC which allow me to stain the same tissue with different markers (Primary Ab + Secondary conjugated Ab) (AF487, AF555, AF647). Since I would like to...

27 February 2021 5,028 2 View

Looking for genomic DNA extraction kits from mouse tissue (centrifuge-based, not spin-column)?

Hello. I am looking to extract genomic DNA from mouse brain and lungs and I need a kit that is not spin-column based because I need to scale up the solution amounts for 400mg tissue (most cap at...

25 February 2021 155 2 View

Has anyone tried to scan fluorescence IHC slides with microarray scanner?

I have an old slide microarray scanner (VIDAR Revolution 4200) and would like to give it a "second life", as IHC scanner array (fluorescence dyes), FISH over tissue or similar. Has anyone tried...

24 February 2021 9,210 1 View

Recommendations on homogenizers for RNA isolation?

I will be performing RNA isolation with frozen lung biopsy samples and am in the market for a tissue homogenizer. I am wanting a homogenizer that will fit in a 1.5ml tube. I was looking at the...

24 February 2021 3,623 3 View

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22 February 2021 9,932 11 View

How to locate and collect the pineal gland in the amphibian brain?

Our team has been trying to locate and collect the pineal gland in the American bullfrog's brain (Lithobates catesbeianus) for some time now. However, we don't have a standardized protocol for...

18 February 2021 3,453 4 View