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

Do you recommend an effective anti-OCT4 Ab for IHC?

I'm staining some brains with several stemness markers but the OCT4 antibody that I have been using is not working. I would really appreciate your recommendations! Thank you!

25 January 2021 3,169 3 View

Can my lysis buffer interfere with the quantification of DNA and RNA using Qubit2.0?

I am doing RNA and DNA extraction using the basic phenol / chloroform / isoamyl method to quantify RNA and DNA in aqueous phase, but first, I do a lysis with buffer (Tris-HCL 1M pH8; EDTA 0.5M pH8...

17 January 2021 1,453 3 View

Why does bromophenol blue band seem to split up during this SDS PAGE run?

06 January 2021 7,788 4 View

Why do I keep obtaining the same secondary PCR band along with the specific product band?

Hello everyone! I need to amplify a specific DNA fragment in order to do Sanger sequencing for the detection of a point mutation in human patients. The fragment is in an exon of my gene of...

25 December 2020 1,805 3 View

Are there only winners in the world of exism?

BREXISM finally is over and they got a trade deal with europe now, but exism left the UK poorer according to the news Brexit is finally done. It will leave the UK...

23 December 2020 4,071 6 View

How is possible that only a small percentage of bromophenol blue started the run in agarose electrophoresis ?

I used an 1,5% agarose gel for a second time and I loaded in the wells that I never used 15 microlitres of sample (constituted of 3 microlitres of bromophenol blue 6X, 6 microlitres of sample and...

07 December 2020 1,373 3 View

Is it correct to expect the same quantitative result between SDS-PAGE and BN-PAGE analysis performed on the same sample?

Please, can anyone please help me with this issue? By BN-PAGE and western blot on DDM-solubilized mitochondria, isolated from cultured cells, I found that in treated cells the amount of CV...

05 December 2020 7,696 2 View

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It was published in the Journal of the American College of Toxicology in 1990, but the author's information does not appear in the journal

29 November 2020 2,554 3 View

How can I calculate degrees of freedom and write F for repeated measure ANOVA?

How can I calculate and report degrees of freedom for repeated mesure ANOVA? I have 48 observations N=48 and 2 factors of 3(P) and 8(LA) levels. I calculate degrees of freedom as follows: dF P =...

19 November 2020 5,682 5 View

Protein-aptamer gel electrophoresis help, please??

Hi, I have problems with running gel electrophoresis. I have tried agarose gel electrophoresis and native PAGE. I have two proteins, which have molecular weights of ~30kDa and ~180kDa and two...

03 March 2021 4,275 4 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

How to regulate SSCP temperature in simple PAGE?

I'd like to perform single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) in my thesis, however I cannot control the temperature of the vertical PAGE since we are using the conventional tanks. Is there a...

02 March 2021 9,157 1 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 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

How can I represent SDS-PAGE results for machine learning analysis?

I am trying to classify and analyze the results of an SDS-PAGE based array for bacterial detection using machine learning, but I have trouble finding the best way to represent the results with...

27 February 2021 9,176 3 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Why my agarose gel staining sometimes looks not homogenic but like gradient (see the figure)?

I am worried about this overexposure of the upper part of the gel in the picture. Is it possible that this is the result of too much concentration of ethidium bromide? Why is there such a big...

25 February 2021 8,140 3 View