PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

Quantifying leaking DNA from bacteria - what's the secret?

Hi, all! I need to determine if my treatment causes membrane damage in bacteria (S. aureus and E. cloacae), but I cannot use a fluorescent probe such as PI and similar ones because my compound is...

24 February 2021 2,006 2 View

Please let me know how to remove mycoplasma contamination from cell line?

I am facing a problem in maintaining the cell line of HepG2 and HepG2.2.15. I have used plasmocin Tm treatment (Invivo gen) Cat.#ant-mpt Lot #MPT-41-01 for more than a month. I have also used...

21 February 2021 6,046 4 View

Is it possible to obtain a negative cronbach alpha?

Good evening everyone. If a questionnaire has 4 factors measuring different constructs as for example CAMI questionnaire measuring attitudes toward the mentally ill that has four factors:...

18 February 2021 3,223 3 View

Western blot protein of interest falling at a lower weight than expected?

My protein of interest is DAGLa (115 kDa). We received the antibody for this from another researcher who reliably shows bands at this weight. We do see a light banding at this weight, but the...

11 February 2021 6,009 3 View

Which Journals would you advise to submit a Letter which briefly talks about neurosurgical treatment of neuro-oncological patient during Sars-COV-2?

Possibily not an open access journal which does not add any publishing costs once being accepted. Thank you in advance

09 February 2021 717 6 View

Sample Size for Quasi-Experimental Quants using one-tailed t-test?

Hi, sorry I'm stumped. I'm going to do a study on the leadership styles (using the MLQ Form 5X) of minority women administrators in medical schools. How will I calculate the sample size? Thank...

30 January 2021 2,865 4 View

Can you do Ponceau staining after loading control for Western Blot?

Hello everyone! I forgot to take a picture of my Ponceau stain prior to starting my first round of primary and secondary antibodies. I'm currently doing my loading control now and was wondering...

25 January 2021 757 3 View

Is there a way to get rid of TEA in a TLC plate in order to do proper staining?

Dear colleagues: I have been trying to establish a few HP-TLC methods in the lab. In general, for quantification purposes, I prefer CuSO4+acid charring, to primuline staining. Lately I have been...

20 January 2021 9,019 1 View

What is the correct way to apply a Design effect for sample size calculation when the sampling method is linear systematic random sampling?

When we are doing sampling by means of simple systematic random sampling,how do we calculate the design effect for use during calculation of sample size for our work?

20 January 2021 5,328 3 View

Physics: Why do we describe light by referring to its wavelength, but microwaves and radar pulses by referring to their frequency?

In physics, the description of the properties of light generally refers to its wavelength (nm), while in the range of microwaves and radio waves we refer to the frequency of a signal (e.g. kHz or...

03 March 2021 1,682 3 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Buffer to disrupt platelet alpha granules for PF4 quantification?

Hello! I want to quantify by ELISA the secreted (from platelets poor plasma) and the non-secreted (from platelet lysate) PF4 before and after TRAP stimulation. I will use the ELISA from R&D...

03 March 2021 1,499 2 View

Buffer Exchange using column packed with sephadex G-25 effect on protein concentration?

Hello, If i am doing a buffer exchange for an antibody of 1mg/mL, does the elution lose protein in the process of buffer exchange? For example, if i flow through 500 uL of 1mg/mL sample, and...

03 March 2021 6,299 3 View

I need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles that are in ~100 nm size and do high resolution TEM to look at mesopores. what grids should I use?

Need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles using the TEM. Also, need high resolution TEM images to see the mesoporous structure. Kindly suggest what kind of grids to use. Thanks, Shatadru

02 March 2021 1,787 2 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

How optimize the Size Exclusion Chromatography?

Hello! I'll do a size exclusion chromatography, but I only have an open column, and I'll perform the peptide extraction from yeast, using buffer lysis (sodium phosphate 50 mM/NaCl 30 mM/DNAse and...

01 March 2021 2,215 2 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View