What are the effects of longer exposure to siRNA (for KD)?

1) I knocked down a protein and collected cells 24 h and 72 h after transfection with Lipofectamine (to note, 5 h after transfection medium was replaced with medium with FBS). 2) KD efficiency...

08 December 2020 9,850 1 View

Why is hard to produce antibodies that are specific to a protein?

Some antibodies reveal nonspecific bands when a western blot is performed. Why is hard to find a good antibody for a protein? Antibodies produced using as the immunogen a synthetic peptide or a...

03 December 2020 208 3 View

Why different antibodies for the same protein stain different places?

I tried two antibodies and one show stain in the cytoplasm and the other one in the nucleus. Why? (Blue - dapi; red - mitochondria; green - protein of interest) And why is hard to find a good...

24 November 2020 6,612 7 View

Could bone tissue be saved in 70% EtOH after decalcification before processing?

I got the mouse tibia and femur tissue harvested, fixed with formalin 48h and decalcified with 14% EDTA 72h before paraffin embedding. This protocol works well for both HE and IHC. Now, for the...

18 October 2020 5,318 1 View

Why are G-quadruplexes a thing? Why not A, T, or C-quadruplex?

Guanine-rich DNA sequences can fold into four-stranded, noncanonical secondary structures called G-quadruplexes (G4s). G4s were initially considered a structural curiosity, but recent evidence...

27 September 2020 9,105 6 View

How does methylene blue fluoresce under dark UV?

Will it show as blue color under dark UV light (say 390 nm to 400 nm range) ? Does it degrade over time under long exposure of UV light (i.e. losing its fluorescein characters) ? What...

23 September 2020 9,752 2 View

My citrate buffer for IHC turned light yellow after boilded 30min with tissue slice. Is it normal?

My citrate buffer for IHC turned light yellow after boilded 30min with tissue slice. I have adjuct the PH to 6 and buffer was fresh made. I just wondering why it turned yellow after boiled with...

09 September 2020 5,357 1 View

Can I only use Matlab-Simulink to model the network consensus problem of a multi-agent system in DC micro-grids?

Hello everyone,recently I have met some problems in my study.I want to achieve a multi-agent system in DC micro-grids,but I never used java so that I can't use Jade to achieve it. Can I only use...

07 September 2020 6,342 2 View

How to avoid washing cells out during the changing medium step?

I'm Culturing adult mice cardiomyoctes and during changing medium step the cells seems washed away. Any tips about how to avoid loosing cells during washing step?

02 September 2020 4,788 4 View

How to gain the access to image recognition?

I am graduate from other major, and now working in computer science and technology, my roomates are mostly researching on image recognition. I want to switch to it and learn how to cooperate with...

21 August 2020 2,888 9 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 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

Does the circuit modeling for planar monopole antennas using Foster canonical forms give good approximation?

Hi researchers, I am searching for some accurate way to do the circuit modeling of planar CPW-fed monopole antennas. I have gone through the literature where mostly circuit modeling is done using...

28 February 2021 7,016 1 View

Compact antenna for the frequency range 1 MHz-5 MHz?

Hello everybody! I have a problem with developing a compact antenna for the 1MHz-5MHz frequency range. Tell me what type of antenna can be used and what books and articles to read to perform this...

27 February 2021 7,710 4 View

Can impedance of antenna be less than 50 ohms?

I am simulating helix antenna in hfss, right now, giving excitation with 50 ohms port. When I see the results of Z parameter (real). It shows lower than 50 ohms. Do not understand, if it can be...

27 February 2021 4,218 7 View

Are there lab markers/pens resistant to Roti-Histol?

Hi, I'm looking for a pen/marker to write on the smooth, transparent (non-frosted) part of microscopy slides which does not get washed away by alcohols and most importantly Roti-Histol. I want to...

24 February 2021 9,902 5 View

I have a problem with kanamycin - why the kanamycin doesn't affect?

Hi everyone, I need to expression of GFP with pET28 plasmid in E. coli BL21(DE3) plysE. Transformed cells have kanamycin and chloramphenicol resistance. Normally, only transformed cells should...

22 February 2021 4,032 4 View

How does elongation affect the resistance of an electrode?

What are the testing rate for electrodes recommended by ASTM for cochlear implants. I am currently doing the 15mm/min elongatio testing.

22 February 2021 1,515 1 View

Resistivity of PVD TiNx thin films vs. N2 flow?

In the PVD of TiN thin films (~100A), I've found the resistivity of the TiN films dropped from ~100 to 60um*cm with N2 flow increasing up to the metallic mode ending point; then the resistivity...

21 February 2021 1,864 2 View