What to do with absence of fluorescence label in Fucci2a mouse-derived fibroblast culture?

Dear all, I have harvested fibroblast cells from R26p-Fucci2 mouse embryos (mouse line as described in this paper: https://dev.biologists.org/content/140/1/237) and cultured them on plastic,...

17 February 2021 3,368 2 View

There are prominent crystal formation in my cell culture dish, what are the possible causes and how to get rid of them?

17 December 2020 3,093 4 View

Can anyone help me troubleshoot QPCR for AAV titering?

So the lab that I work in generates a lot of AAVs and we titer them via QPCR. However, I've been noticing that the entire time, the efficiency has always been very low (anywhere from 40-80%) with...

22 November 2020 4,580 3 View

Can plant tissues be stored at -20C for DNA extraction?

Hey everyone. I collected some leaf tissue samples from the plant Phragmites australis from which I am hoping to extra DNA for sequencing. I will be extracting DNA using Qiagen DNeasy Plant Mini...

08 November 2020 4,989 12 View

Does anyone know of a marker expressed on all lymph-resident cells that can be used in flow cytometry?

I am looking for a marker found on all cells that reside in the lymph node - I study the immune response in salivary glands and we want to gate out any lymph resident cells to ensure that there is...

13 October 2020 6,322 2 View

Can you expect to see changes in secondary structure in a MD simulation?

While running a simulation on any peptide or protein, is it possible for the secondary structures to change? For example, seeing a steady rise in helical content over the whole simulation?

30 September 2020 4,298 9 View

What are ideal personal desktop hardware specs for comparing models for time series analysis and machine learning?

I am researching trading strategies, particularly involving time series analysis, but also machine learning, on data sets that range as far back as 1950 and would like to compare the accuracy of...

15 July 2020 7,733 3 View

How do I determine if my Fst values are significantly different from 0 or between populations that are and are not separated by a highway?

I am trying to determine if a highway is too much of a barrier for shrews to cross and breed freely. What I have to work with is ~1080 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (we did not do...

22 June 2020 7,647 1 View

What is the best wearable EEG recording device for research?

Hi there, I am searching a wearable EEG device with as many channels and the highest accuracy possible. I found some papers which reviewed/used the following devices, but still not sure which is...

19 May 2020 5,712 2 View

What are the best Non-parametric analyses for Non-normal, non equal variance Physiological Data, and how do you interpret them?

Greetings Folks, I'm currently running some iterations of some Hormone/Molecular data from my research on turtle hormone concentrations. At the moment I've grouped my data into the three...

07 January 2020 2,416 2 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

IHC on mouse liver hepatocytes?

Can anyone help me choose primary antibodies for mouse liver hepatocytes and also in conjunction Cd8 cells. Also Cd3 cells. I want to look at hepatocytes and adjacent immune cells in mice with...

01 March 2021 6,953 1 View

How to avoid ulcers in s.c. injected tumors ?

Recently, we have injected s.c. B16F10 tumor cells in BL/6 mice. At around 12-15th day some animals showed ulcerations in tumors , with a big hole in the middle (it looks like a volcano). We have...

01 March 2021 9,938 3 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

What are the pros and cons for mice versus rats?

Hi Everyone, I am designing a pilot study using rodents to assess the effects of simulated space environments (radiation + altered gravity) on microbiome and immune system. I have limited...

24 February 2021 1,825 3 View

Is it harmful to breed for Cre Homozygosity initially?

Hello, I am currently using a Cas9 knock in system that will be expressed in the liver. To do so STOP codon fl/fl Cas9 KI mice were bred with Albumin-Cre mice to generate heterozgous pups, that...

24 February 2021 5,759 3 View