Can anyone provide a detailed Congo red staining protocol for detecting amyloid aggregates in neuroblastoma cell culture please?

I plan to seed neuroblastoma cells. Differentiate them with retinoic acid, treat them with AB1-42 and then stain them with Congo red to observe amyloid aggregates in those cells. Thank you in...

31 December 2018 3,512 4 View

Is there a database that I can use to look into solubility and solvents of a chemical?

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07 August 2018 6,274 0 View

Do you have a detailed protocol for dissolving Abeta25-35 in DMSO?

Hello, I have no access to HFIP, and I already tried NH4OH method with little success. The ThT assay resaults did not make sense by this method. And AFM showed the 500 nm spheres were formed. Any...

08 September 2017 9,563 2 View

For peptide concentration determination, measured molar extinction coefficient or calculated one?

07 August 2017 2,786 4 View

Does the choice of solvent affect the molar extinction coefficient of a particular peptide?

Hi everybody, I am trying to determine peptide concentration by far-UV spectroscopy and I was wondering if different solvents (water, ammonium chloride,Ham's F-12 medium and PBS) that I use as...

06 July 2017 8,887 1 View

For transferring cell lines between laboratories in 2 hours distance should I keep the T-flask vertical or horizontal during communication?

01 February 2017 1,940 7 View

What kit do you recommend for trans-membrane peptide and protein extraction?

I'm looking for a kit to extract a trans-membrane peptide, preferably, with no or very low contamination to cytosolic proteins.

01 January 1970 925 2 View

What is the best protein assay selection for a peptide as small as 1000 Da?

Which method is the best choice to determine protein concentration of amyloid beta peptide (25-35) with a molecular weight of 1060.28 g/mol? Is Bradford assay incompatible because it responds to...

01 January 1970 7,192 9 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Is stone a sustainable material? Is it a sustainable approach to use natural stone waste in architecture?

I'm designing a zero-waste restaurant and considering using marble waste to make some tables and a bar countertop. My clients think it's not "sustainable enough" and I would like to have more...

01 March 2021 4,326 7 View

Does any one can help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions interactions with guanine (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.)?

Hello every body Does any one has any idea to help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.) interactions with guanine or other DNA organic...

01 March 2021 6,187 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

Why does intensity drops as concentration increases?

Is there any reason for decrease in fluorescence emission intensity of HSA,BSA when increase the concentration ?

28 February 2021 3,653 4 View

POlymer+DMSO solution and moisture??

What could be the reason of moisture at the sides of Vial when I am preparing my polmyer+DMSO solution for membrane fabrication? What etiquettes I am possibly missing here?

28 February 2021 6,516 5 View

Should we reduce the standard unit of length to 0.31951540592 meter ?

The reasoning behind this question is to align the ratios of the proton potential in energy per charge to the speed of light in distance per time. As these two dimensions appear to be related,...

27 February 2021 947 7 View

What could be reason for getting such type of graph for complex impedance in case of polymer blend films?

Its effect appears in real part of ac conductivity also. Can anyone suggest any reason behind it?

26 February 2021 3,487 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

Methodological confusions regarding deductive and inductive reasoning, hypothesis and theory test?

Hi Colleagues- What do you think about the following methodological issues: 1. Is it methodologically wrong to formulate quantitative research questionnaire based on inductive reasoning? 2. Is it...

21 February 2021 4,634 6 View