Why DNA skein and DNA pellet were not seen during salting out DNA extraction method?

I use salting out DNA extraction methods . But recently after adding the ethanol we couldn't saw the DNA skein and DNA pellet . Finally the results of nano drop indicated that extracted DNA have...

08 September 2019 1,829 1 View

How can i extract miRNa from saliva samples efficiently ?

Recently we decide to evaluate the miRNA expression levels in saliva sample as diagnostic biomarker of cancer . We used TRIzol extraction methods but the CT of real-time PCR for U6 gene was...

08 September 2019 1,369 3 View

What is the serum IL-6 level in human ?

Recently we evaluate the serum IL-6 level in patients after radiotherapy . Unfortunately 4 of 7 samples are negative. we used the thermo fisher ELISA kit for this aim and 100 microliter of...

07 August 2019 2,658 5 View

Is there differences between PBMC and WBC in ionizing radiation responses?

04 May 2019 8,005 5 View

How can i access the Miranda web page ?

unfortunately during this month i couldn't access to the miranda microRNA target prediction tool web page . http://www.microrna.org/ is the web page address was changed ?

05 June 2018 9,323 0 View

How can i solve the agarose gel problem ?

My friend sent me the agarose gel results. As seen in attached figure lower range of gel was dark and , i cant see any band in this region . how can i solve this problem?

11 December 2017 4,915 0 View

How can I extract DNAparaffin embedded tissues with mineral oil?

Recently two study indicated that mineral oil can be used for Dna extraction. Is there anyone who has the experience about this method?

10 November 2017 4,236 5 View

How can i predict that targeting a gene with siRNA lead to specific pathway inhibition ?

Recently we want to target a gene with siRNA , but i have a critical question how can i make sure that downstream pathway of this genes will be affected . on the other hand ho can i predict...

10 November 2017 1,899 3 View

Why the lan of sds page aren't smoth?

08 September 2017 7,829 3 View

What is the difference of non-treated flask with Ultra-Low attachment cell culture flasks?

07 August 2017 1,301 4 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 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

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View