How do I interpret fit statistics SEM and Modindices output?

Hi, I would need some help in understanding the SEM output. I run a latent change score analysis to test the change score of a variable of interest at two-time points (repeated measure) PLD1 and...

05 January 2021 3,367 2 View

Lipofectamine 3000 in 10 cm dish?

Dear all, I'm trying to transfect HeLa cells with lipofectamine 3000 in a 10 cm dish. Do someone of you have a protocol to share? I still examined the table for scaling up or down lipo3000 but it...

13 October 2020 2,926 3 View

Which is the best system to keep endocrinology samples frozen in the field, without electricity?

Hi everyone, I am looking for suggestions to store biological samples in the field for endocrinology analyses, where I will not have electricity. One of the options we are evaluating is a solar...

01 September 2020 3,766 3 View

How to combine beam and shell elements in ANSYS APDL?

Hi everyone! I have a doubt and I hope there is someone who can give me an advice. I am modeling a MEMS gyroscope for my Master thesis and I am starting with a very basic structural design. My...

20 August 2020 9,524 5 View

How to edit density and heat capacity in Aspen Plus ?

Recently I'm trying to edit a pure component mass density and heat capacity of an existing component NaNO3 but failed. Could anyone help me on this? Thanks a lot.

17 July 2020 8,800 8 View

Do you have suggestions about CROSS CULTURAL ADAPTATION of questionnaires?

Hi! I am currently translating and adaptating a questionnarire about attitudes towards inclusion, and I would like to have suggestions about specific literature in translation and cross-cultural...

23 March 2020 2,630 3 View

Can the pcDNA5FRT/TO vector be used for transient overexpression of a gene in a common cell line?

01 March 2020 3,206 2 View

Does CXCL8 or other chemokines induce in vitro cell proliferation?

hi everybody, i have some troubles with chemokines and cell proliferation. Different papers evidence that CXCL8 (but also CXCL12, CCL2 and other chemokines) are able to promote cancer cell...

03 February 2020 214 4 View

Anyone could suggest how to analyze calcium imaging using imagej?

Hi, we would like to analyze time sequences images of calcium imaging assay performed with Fluo4-AM in imagej. Is there any plugin that we could install to do this? Do you have any kind of...

27 January 2020 2,665 1 View

Chloroform and isopropanol RNA extractions?

I have to perform RNA extraction with TRIzol LS and I just realized that we have chloroform stabilized with ethanol. Is that ok? And should chloroform and isopropanol be "molecular biology...

30 September 2019 4,647 5 View

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 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

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

How to compare 2 samples recruited with different sampling methods?

If I want to compare characteristics of 2 groups of patients, one group is recruited from a random sample of the general public while another group is from a sample with a fixed gender (male to...

26 February 2021 3,526 3 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 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