Has anyone encountered any problems with abm good microRNA primers for quantification of mature miRNAs?

I've been trying to quantitate mature microRNAs in 293T cells with and without 'X'. 2ug of total RNA (isolated by Trizol method) is converted to cDNA using All-in one microRNA cDNA synthesis kit...

17 February 2021 8,986 2 View

Are the molecular biology reagents of HiMedia ( kits,pcr and electrophoresis products) as good as products of NEB, Sigma and Invitrogen?

HiMedia seems to be cheaper than the rest.Anybody who has used it for molecular biology experiments, how is the quality?

26 September 2019 7,010 3 View

Annealing temperature in RT PCR - Positive control differes from target gene?

The primer annealing temperature , after the gradient PCR analysis, for the target gene differs from the optimal annealing temperature in housekeeping gene (positive control). What to do ? The...

02 July 2019 810 3 View

What statistical test can i use on my data?

I am researching the relationship between animal biodiversity and physics-chemical properties of a clean and polluted burrow dyke. I have the species abundance for both burrow dykes, as well as...

26 June 2019 569 2 View

Segregation coefficient of self-compacting concrete and small superplasticizer overlaps?

What do you think how important, for segregation coefficient of SCC, could be very small superplasticizer overlaps during the process of making SCC? I made some observations in my work: Some...

04 May 2019 6,951 4 View

What policies may bring about sustainable reform and development?

Social disparities rise amid volatile economic and political times today. What may be constructive efforts in policy form to start resolving issues that cause such state of affairs?

16 March 2019 1,086 4 View

How can I improved the power (accuracy) of my Deep Learning Model?

Hey everyone, me and my colleagues are programming a Deep Learning Model with tensorflow. Our goal is it to predict chemical toxicity. Our input are chemical drugs in SMILE-Strucuture. So, how...

07 June 2018 7,920 3 View

What are uses of waste in geotechnical engineering?

waste use in improving soil engineering specification such as disaster waste, cement waste and others

02 August 2017 8,663 16 View

Dummy/ real data Request

02 July 2017 5,438 2 View

Do you know a scale for entrepreneurial learning?

Looking for a scale for entrepreneurial learning types (individual vs. collective learning, exploratory vs. exploitative, intuitive vs. sense making learning

20 September 2016 4,647 3 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 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

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 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

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View