How much volume of primers will be added in a 25 µl reaction volume to make a final conc of 15 pmol from a primer stock solution of 20 µM?

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Quick way to collect saliva to study viral RNA expression?

Hello, I am going to perform some saliva's RNA analysis. I found in the litterature several protocols to collect and prepare saliva for RNA/DNA analysis. For main of them we have to use kits and...

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What have been the effects of Covid-19 on digital engagement in the Heritage industry?

For my dissertation i am looking at digital history and digital engagement and how this has been effected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Any help with this research would be greatly appreciated.

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Why my PCR amplicons no longer have the expected size and are faint?

Dear all, I have issues with my PCR amplicons. For one week now, I do no longer have the expected size for my PCR amplicon (252 bp in the first 4 wells) on the 50 bp DNA ladder. They appear faint...

17 July 2020 4,988 5 View

How can I make a comparison between LAMMPS results and lab results?

Dear all, I'm simulating the CO2 adsorption on two graphite sheets using the LAMMPS software and I calculated the density profiles in the pore width. Now I would like to compare the results with...

20 January 2020 4,211 1 View

Any NK cell line that express inhibitory killer cell immunoglobulins-like receptors (iKIRs)?

I wish to investigate the influence of iKIRS in natural killer cells cytotoxicity to the tumor cells, yet i dont seem to get any NK cell line that expresses iKIRS.

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Why my ligation presents non specific bands?

I'm tring to insert a fragment with 342pb in the pENTR/SD/D TOPO cloning vector, that have about 346pb. I have already purified the gel with the DNA fragment and did the ligation, using the...

17 January 2018 9,882 4 View

I want to preview BRATs medical image using MATLAB

I used the code "Read 3D data " in Matlab to read in my medical image but i cant view the image yet i guess it has to do with rescaling. this is the message in the command window. RescaleSlope not...

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Police leaving the force to join private investigations

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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

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

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PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

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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,...

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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...

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How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

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How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

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