How to judge and prove the uniqueness of the solutions to the following two matrix equations?

It is about the matrix equation AX=B, where a, b c in A and B are independent elements, X should be made of constants. Case 1 A=[a b 0;0 0 c]; B=[a b 0 0;0 0 c c]; The solution is X=[1 0 0 0;0 1...

16 February 2021 5,698 3 View

Alpha and dense granules in platelets not visible in Transmission Electron Microscopy?

I am trying to visualize alpha and dense granules in platelets. However, it seems like the granules were not stained well. Is there any way I can improve my staining technique to obtain better...

04 February 2021 5,925 9 View

How to improve my BrdU immunostaining?

24 January 2021 414 3 View

Just face a Comsol issue dealing with magnetically hyperelastic material?

Hello all, I am just newly doing a simulation to test the deformation status of a magnetized rubber-like material, which is in-compressible, under a shifting magnetic field. Try to find the...

22 January 2021 7,427 2 View

Any tips on Fab blocking of mouse tissue?

Hi, everyone, I am working on immunostaining of bone marrow and growth plates of mice. And I have to use an mouse monoclonal Ab to do this staining. However, with only secondary goat anti-mouse...

21 January 2021 9,826 3 View

NADP+/NADPH in bacterial cell lysates?

Hello all, we'd like to pick your brain . The enzyme we're testing requires NADPH to work. We have controls showing that our reaction needs our enzyme and our enzyme definitely needs NADPH. Since...

20 January 2021 232 2 View

How VASP perform selfconsistent noncollinear calculations?

Selfconsistent noncollinear magnetic calculations can be done in VASP. I am wondering how VASP update the spin directions at each local site. For molecular dynamics, VASP search the next...

16 January 2021 1,398 3 View

Any suggestions on 50um cryosection immunostaining (growth plate) ?

Hi everyone I am working on immunofluorescence of cryosection of murine growth plates. The Ab worked well on 8um cryosection. But when I stained 50um section, I found the fluorescent signals...

03 January 2021 9,531 3 View

How to make sure self-ligation of a linear plasmid?

I want to ligate a linear 1.7kbp plasmid with the EcoRI sites at two sides, but when I use the quick ligase kit from NEB to test the ligation efficiency it is hard to ligate it. Is there anyone...

08 December 2020 3,442 3 View

Do anyone have experience with zymo research yeast plasmid miniprep?

Hello, I am new to yeast research. I am trying to rescue plasmid from yeast and have tried several protocols developed by researchers. But the results are not promising. I ended up buying this kit...

06 December 2020 1,251 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

Can bacterial suspension be pipetted directly onto petri dish and agar poured onto it?

Hi, recently I encountered a protocol for plating which was not the usual method I have been practicing (pour LB agar onto plate, allow it to solidify, pipette bacterial suspension onto plate,...

28 February 2021 7,292 3 View

Difficulty in cloning of 1kb gene into vector?

I am facing difficulties in cloning a 1kb gene into a vector (pJIT163). I have my gene on interest (GOI) in pUC57 and want to clone in pJIT163 using SalI and BamHI restriction sites. I am getting...

25 February 2021 3,221 7 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

How to measure 50uL of cells?

Hello, I am planning to do a transformation, and on the protocol it says "Scrape a 50 ml volume of yeast from the YPAD plate using a sterile inoculating loop or sterile toothpick". But I can...

14 February 2021 6,247 3 View

How do I change g/l into mM for bacto agar. I am trying to get the millimolar content of sodium and chloride percentage in bacto agar. How do I do it?

I am doing a salt tolerance-related experiment and for that I need to relate my salt levels to that in bacto agar. I don't want my salt concentrations to increase due to already salt content...

09 February 2021 4,158 1 View

Transformation into the Stbl3 chemo competent cells?

03 February 2021 1,111 5 View

How to Remove DNA From a Sample Without Rupturing Yeast?

I transformed a plasmid into yeast and selected for transformants by growing them in a selective media (liquid, not agar plate). My experiment requires that I continually grow/ split these...

01 February 2021 9,936 2 View

What is the composition of the solid and broth agar to grow Streptomyces from freezed sample? what are extraction steps of products from broth agar?

Please what are the composition of the solid agar could I use to grow the bacteria? what are the composition of the broth agar could I use to grow the bacteria and how to extract the natural...

26 January 2021 5,006 1 View

What is the best way and technique for serial dilution of bactria to get accurate number of colony ?

Hello I am infecting cells with bacteria in a well and then I am doing serial dilution of this well 1 in 10 and culture the two last dilution on MHA agar I have difficulty in getting accurate...

26 January 2021 9,256 5 View