Please what is the best solvent to dissolve heme?

I have tried NaOH and NH3 so far but can't dissolve well.Thanks for the assistance. I can be contact personally on this email:[email protected]

04 January 2021 5,528 2 View

PVDF membrane degradation?

Hi, I'm performing western blots on different samples and I'm facing a some problems after eletrotrasnfer with PVDF membranes. In general, during the incubations with the primary and secondary...

18 November 2020 6,412 7 View

What to do when you found a published paper that doesn't belong to you but has your name as the author?

I found a published paper online (attached here) that bears mine and colleague's names as authors but the paper doesn't belong to us. The work was claimed to be carried out in Kenya. We are in...

22 March 2020 4,860 7 View

Do you know a (validated) instrument for the assessment of state embarassment?

I've found quite a few scales for vicarious and personal embarassibility as a personality trait so far (i. e. Kelly & Jones, 1997; Maltby & Day, 2000; Uysal et al., 2014...). As I'd like...

24 February 2020 8,142 4 View

Are Peak Areas of different silylations comparable?

If I have an analyte, that has different silylations, like 2-TMS and 3-TMS, how can I compare the peak areas? Can I simply sum them up? What if theres a different ratio of 2-TMS/3-TMS in my...

03 December 2019 273 4 View

What is a good topic for Blockchain applications in IoT?

Hello everyone, at the moment I'm looking for a topic for my bachelor thesis. I was thinking about Blockchain and Smart Contracts for cyber-physical Systems, in order to use it for Smart Factory...

23 October 2019 3,694 5 View

How to carry out western blotting for a 233 kDa protein effectively?

Hi, I want to carry out western blotting for a 233 kDa protein. I was told to use a tris-acetate gel due to the size of the protein. However, I was wandering would I be able to detect the...

25 March 2019 6,308 4 View

How to set up Coupled Displacement Boundary Conditions in COMSOL?

Dear Community, I recently switched from ANSYS Mechanical to COMSOL Multiphysics. So far I was able to transfer my models to the new platform but I yet miss one feature of ANSYS in COMSOL. I hope...

29 January 2019 4,937 3 View

SpeedVac of DNA and salt concentrations: downstream effects?

I often use a speed vacuum concentrator to concentrate my DNA prior to restriction digests, DNA ligations, NGS library preparation or target captures. Usually, my DNA is eluted in 10 mM Tris-Cl...

13 November 2018 6,049 3 View

How do I calculate NDVI images with different thresholds using Sentinel-2 image?

I want to set different thresholds for calculating the NDVI images using Sentinel-2 for the purposes of fishing out river sediments in the Dry and Wet seasons. I am using the Semi-automatic...

05 November 2018 694 2 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

How does the gut microbiome affect the fibrotic process within the liver?

and Can the gut microbe be used for the treatment or diagnosis of liver fibrosis?

02 March 2021 557 2 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

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

Errors in DNA sequences?

I am trying to better understand the scope of DNA replication and sequencing errors, e.g. 1. I have seen similar error rates of 10e4 to 10e5 for cell & instrumental DNA replication,...

24 February 2021 4,397 3 View

What might be the reason for obtaining two bands in plant genomic DNA extraction?

I got a thin band and a thick band i guess it would be the genomic DNA and the 260/280 ratio is 3.

21 February 2021 6,523 6 View

I can detect my protein but the encoding DNA sequence has stop codons within. Should I ignore the stop codons?

I constructed a synthetic DNA library (scFv, VH-VL orientation) with a 3' reporter and 8x histag. I cloned and expressed this gene following which I performed an ELISA. The ELISA results suggested...

19 February 2021 7,006 5 View

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17 February 2021 4,217 3 View