How I can differentiate between primer dimer and non specific band in agarose gel?
After performing symmetric PCR, PCR purification was performed. Afterwards, asymmetric PCR was performed using the PCR purification product as a template, but no ssDNA band was confirmed in the...
08 August 2024 1,668 3 View
I am staining some brain sections stored in cryoprotectant that express a Histone H2B- GFP fusion protein that were generated ~10 years ago. I know I need to enhance signal with an anti-GFP...
07 August 2024 5,338 2 View
I have been working on Red blood cell-derived extracellular vesicles as Antisense Oligonucleotide (ASO) carriers. We normally run agarose gel to quantify the loading efficiency. I used naked ASO...
06 August 2024 3,130 2 View
I want to introduce a point mutation (change in one nucleotide) into my gene of interest (DNA binding domain) I have designed primers as recommended on the Data sheet of the kit : -Both primers...
05 August 2024 9,059 3 View
How to design VN primer to attach with universal reverse primer
05 August 2024 2,116 3 View
It's an end-point PCR protocol. I'm using 1.5% agarose gel with SyBR Safe dye and TBE as a running buffer, visualization on BioRad XR+ system. I was primarily thinking of primer efficiency,...
01 August 2024 4,673 4 View
Hello everyone, I performed a PCR yesterday, and the results showed no bands on the gel. Of course, I probably missed some crucial steps, like adding my samples to the PCR strips themselves, for...
31 July 2024 2,406 6 View
Hello all, I have been trying to follow a 2-stage PCR protocol used to amplify barcodes of a large yeast library, as per Nyugen et al. (2022) -...
30 July 2024 841 2 View
I want to introduce 2 mutations using Agilent's multi-site mutagenesis kit, I designed the primers using their online tool and it gave me 2 sets for primers (1 set for each mutation) so I was...
25 July 2024 6,517 3 View
Hi everyone, I have extracted DNA from a biogas bioreactor using Qiagen kit and prep cDNA library then used this library as template to optimize primers for qPCR (taken from papers). Some of the...
23 July 2024 1,329 5 View