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

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 access to the LncRNA sequences?

I want to design primer for the lncRNA entitled nonhsat062994 but i can't find it at NCBI. how can i access to the sequence of this RNA?

04 May 2018 8,641 4 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

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 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

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View