Has anyone tried to scan fluorescence IHC slides with microarray scanner?

I have an old slide microarray scanner (VIDAR Revolution 4200) and would like to give it a "second life", as IHC scanner array (fluorescence dyes), FISH over tissue or similar. Has anyone tried...

24 February 2021 9,210 1 View

Different antibodies show signal at same MW in SDS-PAGE, what is wrong?

16 February 2021 2,857 9 View

The modern system of international relations: unipolar or multipolar world?

Do you think that there is one center of power in the modern world, or are all countries equal in the international arena?

01 January 2021 7,026 2 View

Mie scattering of a Gaussian with curved wavefront by a sphere?

Can anyone please suggest some references? I would like to simulate scattering of a fundamental mode of a fiber by a microsphere. I am only familiar with a plane wave case, but in case of a curved...

01 January 2021 1,440 3 View

Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit 260/230 contamination?

I've been trying to extract DNA from rat liver tissue using Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit. I followed handbook procedure and all of my samples had low 260/230 (

21 December 2020 7,100 3 View

Student's t-test or DeSeq2 for RNA-Seq data analysis?

Hi everybody, I am analysing RNA-Seq data of patient samples. One group of samples has a certain monoallelic deletion, the other group 2 copies of the wildtype gene. Now, I want to compare the...

28 November 2020 5,977 3 View

Cre-loxp system does not work (lines #017455 and #017320, JAX). Why?

We bought this year two lines (#017455 and #017320) to get specific expression of channelrhodopsin2 (ChETA, in this case) in parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons. We hoped that crossing a mouse...

16 November 2020 8,701 1 View

Why after cloning recombinant pET in E. coli DH5a I get a very low plasmid yield after extraction?

I chemically transformed a ligation product (pET28a and my gene of 3051 bp) into E coli DH5alpha competent cells. I plated 200 and 800 ml of my transformation on plates of LB agar Kan (25 mg/ml)....

13 September 2020 4,421 3 View

Good markers to distinguish D1R/D2R striatal medium spiny neurons?

Hi! I want to distinguish D1R and D2R subpopulations of medium spiny neurons in striatum in immunofluorescence. Most of the papers I found use transgenic EGFP mice targeting this receptors, but I...

31 August 2020 3,863 2 View

does anyone have the user manual of the geostrain program?

Hello, I am looking for the user manual of the geostrain software, I have downloaded the software but the user manual is not found. I will be very grateful for your help Cheers

14 June 2020 4,169 1 View

Anyone plz suggest relevant topic for research in image processing+Deep learning.?

I have selected brain tumor images ...but now found that already lots of research done n this topic.

03 March 2021 5,774 3 View

What kind of food stuff increase the potentiality of human brain?

There are different kinds of food stuffs which we intake daily according to our requirements. Carbohydrate, protein, fat, mineral, vitamin, water are mainly working for the growth and development...

01 March 2021 831 2 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View

Can MicroRNA cross the blood brain barrier?

In diseased conditions, many genes and gene products are visible in the bloodstream. So my question is whether we can find traces of microRNA which is involved in disease and disorder in blood serum?

24 February 2021 7,064 3 View

Alginate and silk fibroin hydrogels toxic to cells?

Hello, I asm currently working with alginate and silk fibroin hydrogels. I prepared a blend of alginate and aqueous silk fibroin (straight from dialysis) and resorted to ionic crosslinking to...

23 February 2021 8,249 2 View

Are there any databases for gene co-expression or expression pattern clustering?

I am currently working on gene clustering based on co-expression pattern in mouse brain. The problem is I do not have some solid way to test my result. Are there any suggestions for databases...

22 February 2021 4,374 3 View

Can RNAscope be used to quantify the mRNA expression level of certain genes?

Hello, all, I want to explore the mRNA expression level of certain genes in the brain under physiological and pathological conditions. In previous studies, the researchers usually isolated the...

18 February 2021 1,518 1 View

Is there a way in which microglia can be extracted from mice without killing them ?

I'm aiming to use an adoptive cell transfer approach, with microglia in mice with ALS. So far all the protocols I have seen, require sacrificing the mouse. I'd like to re-infuse the microglia back...

11 February 2021 9,509 1 View

How can I prevent bubbles from forming under a coverslip?

My colleague and I are having some trouble mounting 70 micrometer mouse brain slices. When we initially position the coverslip over the mounted slices, there are no bubbles but when we come back...

10 February 2021 3,580 1 View