HOW can i minimize the number of hits made by the designed primer to only the intended sequence?

i have designed a primer but i found it gives 200 hits over than the intended sequence (5 of them in the organism that i work with). this give poor pcr results. i want to avoid this but i don,t...

08 September 2018 6,894 3 View

Could any one help me in designing accurate primers for the following sequence?

i had designed primers for two sequences using blast tools in NCBI but they gave poor amplification lower than the ladder after gradient pcr i want any one to check them and help me in designing...

08 September 2018 7,829 4 View

How to calculate delta CT for calibrator in qpcr in case-control study ?

i do a study for a gene expression in HCC patients compared to healthy person using real time pcr. i have analyzed ct for gene of interest and house keeping gene in each sample either HCC or...

06 July 2018 6,703 13 View

Is it useful for doing conventional PCR before REAL TIME PCR to be sure of the product size and primer annealing?

i will do a real time PCR for miRNA after revrse transcription. iam afraid from bad results and wasting mu kits which is expensive. i want to know whether it is possible to do conventional pcr and...

02 March 2018 3,804 12 View

What is the best PCR condition (PCR mix and cycles and temperature ) for amplification of a WNT10A?

I have used the following procedures but am still having strong primer dimer bands while the desired product is absent. The cycling conditions for PCR program that i used were 5 min at 95C for...

02 March 2018 5,925 6 View

What is the difference betwwen gold and green open access?

i want to choose the green open access because it is free but i want to know every thing about it

01 February 2016 3,075 4 View

Is it better ti use triazole or total RNA or miRNA isolation kit to isolate miRNA (less than 200 nt) from serum or plasma?

10 November 2015 7,260 8 View

Is qRT-PCR one step or two step better for miRNA?

10 November 2015 3,207 3 View

Do we use total RNA extraction kit or mi RNA extraction kit to extract mi RNA from serum?

10 November 2015 5,794 7 View

How to design primers for microRNA?

I WANT TO DESIGN primers for microRNA

10 November 2015 2,101 1 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

What test should i use in comparing the correlation between categorical and continuous variables?

Dear all, I have the variable (Surgery duration) represented by values in minutes and the variable (preoperative neuropraxia cases) represented as (Yes/No) values. I want to compare these two...

03 March 2021 5,427 5 View

I got 02 moderator values defining Johnson-Neyman significance regions. Is it an error?

Hi everyone, I am conducting research for my Master's thesis. I am using PROCESS by Johnson-Neyman to analyze my Moderator model. I test the relationship between Public Service Motivation and...

03 March 2021 2,350 2 View

Logistical regression using SPSS for a dichotomous dependent variable, with an independent variable of 1, 2, 5 and 10 seconds?

I have an experiment with 28 participants The independent variable is the times 1, 2, 5, and 10 used as the cross hairs during a task These 4 times were tested using 4 different blocks, each...

03 March 2021 9,692 2 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View