What is a good method of DNA extraction from Poaceae herbarium specimens?

I am having minimal luck using Qiagen Stool and Plant DNeasy kits for extraction from herbarium specimens that are 20-60 years old. I use a bead beater with MP Bio Matrix A to break up my samples....

02 March 2018 3,939 3 View

How do you conduct an SH Test in RAxML on CIPRES?

My lab mates and I unable to conduct an SH test in RAxML on CIPRES. We have used a .phy file for our input, deselected "Configure Bootstrapping," supplied our best tree in a .tre file from our...

09 October 2016 1,895 1 View

What is a suitable DNA extraction method for Araliaceae?

Between CTAB and QIAGEN DNeasy Mini Kit extraction methods which will produce the cleanest and largest amount of DNA for Araliaceae? I am specifically working with leaf material from Polyscias...

02 March 2015 5,793 7 View

Voucher Deposition and Collection Information

01 January 1970 2,503 0 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

Can you perform the Murexide test on samples fixed in Formalin?

I have a fixed sample and would like to use the murexide reaction to test for uric acid composition. I no longer have fresh samples

22 February 2021 1,328 1 View

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22 February 2021 9,932 11 View