What's the concentration recommend for recombinant protein use in western blotting?

I'm currently working having problem with the concentration for recombinant protein use in western blot, the one been used is Recombinant Human CD19 Fc Chimera Protein-rndsystem which does not...

24 February 2021 8,514 3 View

Errors in DNA sequences?

I am trying to better understand the scope of DNA replication and sequencing errors, e.g. 1. I have seen similar error rates of 10e4 to 10e5 for cell & instrumental DNA replication,...

24 February 2021 4,397 3 View

What can I do if DNA OD260/280 is either 1.6 or higher than 3?

26 January 2021 7,830 4 View

How do you multiple impute item scores and perform a linear regression on factor scores?

I am developing a questionnaire and first performing an exploratory factor analysis. After I have the final factor structure, I plan on regressing the factor scores on some demographic covariates....

18 January 2021 883 8 View

How do I design an extra long linker?

I'm trying to insert a linker between two proteins that is almost 100 amino acids in length, does anyone have any experience designing such a linker? I plan to order a gene block from IDT and...

17 December 2020 7,812 1 View

Is the fluorescent protein must be totally photobleached in FRAP assay?

Hi I have tried to measure the mobility of a protein of interest by the FRAP assay. The protein was fused with GFP. I overexpressed the fusion protein in Hela cells. However, when the area of the...

14 December 2020 6,567 1 View

Why am I unable to coat oleate-capped NaCeF4:Gd,Tb nanoparticles with mesoporous silica shell?

My oleate-capped NaCeF4:Gd,Tb NPs have been synthesized via the thermal decomposition method. 1mmol of NPs has been dispersed in 20 ml of cyclohexane. I have tried dissolving 1 ml of NP in...

01 December 2020 4,713 2 View

Primer specificity check with primer blast individually or together?

Hi, When checking my designed primers for specificity, what is the difference if I run BLASTn for each primer individually versus together (ie. forward primer separated by 20 "N" then reverse...

03 November 2020 1,421 4 View

How to perform statistic analysis for age range between two cohorts?

Hi, I was reading the paper (MicroRNA Expression, Survival, and Response to Interferon in... ). In Table 1, I'm wondering how did the authors calculate a p-value of 0.29 for Age? The age in Table...

20 October 2020 2,276 5 View

Intron contetion and primer selection?

Dear all I am trying to clone a gene, which only contains only "one intron" in the middle part. I treat the extracted RNA with DNAse and use verso cDNA kit, so the DNA contamination ie...

10 September 2020 7,022 4 View

Where can I find life cycle inventory or assessment of non woven materials?

Dear network, I am looking for the LCA or LCI or at least the energy balances of the non woven fabrics process for my master project, in specific for natural fibers, yet I have found...

02 March 2021 9,662 1 View

Are there any open-source datasets containing physiological information about exercises to be used for an OR-model?

I have just recently started a new "weekend project" in addition to my master's studies and I am looking for a data-set. I would like to use some Operations Research to design an optimal gym...

22 February 2021 8,023 1 View

How we can measure Kemp % in wool without using of benzene?

Would you please let me to know about the methods for measurement of medullation and Kemp % on animal? My problem is that the wool sampling and sending to laboratory is not possible. So I would...

21 February 2021 7,260 4 View

Staining methods for skeletal muscle fiber typing?

does anyone know the best method to differentiate and quantify rapid fatiguing and fatigue resistant muscle fibers? the old method form the 1980's uses ATP staining which is quite labor intense?

21 February 2021 6,483 3 View

In your experience what is the difference between G.652D and G.655D optical fiber. In field and in lab?

In our current era there is a big confusion about the usage of G.652 and G.655 optical fiber cable. Theoretically G.655 is much better than G.652 but the operator feel that G.652 is giving almost...

11 February 2021 4,006 8 View

Is 60%/40% a typical fiber-matrix ratio in vehicle GFRP/CFRP composites?

Quick question I couldn't easily find a definite answer, so I hope someone here could help. I've been looking for information about the ratio (by weight) of glass or carbon fiber to epoxy matrix...

04 February 2021 740 1 View

What is the reason of the received optical signal to be slimmed down in multi-mode fiber?

What is the reason of the received optical signal to be slimmed down in multi-mode fiber? I have 4 km multi-mode fiber

03 February 2021 1,105 10 View

Could someone help me troubleshoot my NOS assay protocol for skeletal muscle extracts, please?

I am trying to measure differences in eNOS activity in skeletal muscle in sedentary and exercised mice, following the conversion of 3H-arg to 3H-cit, and assaying the samples with and with out...

31 January 2021 8,324 1 View

What is the best way to minimize/prevent the effects of rigor mortis in excised mouse muscle?

I'm planning to excise mouse muscle to use for ex vivo mechanical testing. What is the best way to prevent the stiffening effects of rigor mortis from confounding results if I cannot isolate the...

30 January 2021 1,641 2 View

Need for help. What goes wrong with my differentiatio process of C2C12?

Hello, I'm now working on C2C12 myoblast cell line. Growing the cells was great, but there are some problems during differentiation process. The cells are not differentiating but frequently...

30 January 2021 9,535 2 View