Why are my bands weird in this Agarose gel?

Can someone please give me some possible things that could go wrong? Here is my recipe: 0.5g Agarose 50 mL of TAE 1x 1 uL ethyl bromide. Gel was run at 100V for 1 hour. The buffer used is also TAE.

01 March 2021 9,952 3 View

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View

Can I ask did any good platform or journals for learning the calcluation on the reference governors and command governor?

Recently I face some problems with the mathematical ( calculation) on the reference governor and command governor, so I need some help from you all to get which platform or journal can let me...

23 February 2021 7,746 2 View

How to minimise the risk of being abused the profile of potential participants tagged in a social media post?

Dear colleagues, I got this one in one project I did ethics review. It's great to hear about your thoughts/experiences. "Doing an open recruitment online (i.e., via Facebook) requires public...

22 February 2021 3,322 3 View

Any suggestion on self-efficacy scale ?

Dear researchers, I am planning on conducting a research on the relationship between Language learning strategies, by Oxford (1990) and self-efficacy. I have found Morgan-Jinks Student Efficacy...

22 January 2021 8,432 3 View

I need to apply a questionnaire from an article. What statistical analysis do I need to use?

Hello, I found a survey about attitude toward language in an article which I find fit to use it in my thesis. The survey has 30 questions, which were put into 5 factors through factor analysis...

21 January 2021 9,419 3 View

Why did I obtain abnormal staining by TUNEL assay?

I use Abcam TUNEL Assay Kit - HRP-DAB (ab206386) on mouse tissues. The staining showed a pattern that I expected to see with a specific layer of cells dying due to drug treatment. But the...

12 January 2021 144 1 View

Is there a generalized method to derive current-mode model of any DC-DC converters?

Hi all, As new DC-DC converters are being proposed, associated control method should be proposed and based on the small-model signal analysis of the DC-DC converters. Using average space state...

06 January 2021 7,247 3 View

Is it need to test Cronbach's Alpha for extracted features from data?

As Cronbach's Alpha is usually used for test the reliability of measurements given by questionnaires, however, I wonder that whether I use this test for features extracted from behavioral data. I...

26 December 2020 9,602 2 View

How is datasets good?

Can you show me some ways to generate benchmark datasets?

22 December 2020 362 4 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

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23 February 2021 4,014 3 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

Can we remove the fmoc group after peptide cleavage?

I have synthesized the peptide using Fmoc based solid phase peptide synthesis. Also I have cleaved the peptide from the resin and lyophilized it, but later realized that, I forgot to deprotect the...

21 February 2021 4,537 3 View

How T cells recognise non-peptide antigens?

This might sound very basic question, but please share with me an explanation of how the T cell is activated when the antigen is not a peptide? What happens? And what are the molecules involved in...

21 February 2021 564 3 View

Can bio-decomposer be a successful alternative to reduce residue burning?

To maintain the proper crop plan most of the times there is not enough time to make the field ready for the next crop. In this particular context , can bio-decompser be a solution? What about...

16 February 2021 7,068 24 View

What are backpropagation formulas for residual neural networks?

14 February 2021 4,194 3 View

Charmm/GROMACS Residue 'ZN' not found in residue topology database?

I am trying to do some MD simulations of a protein with zinc ions. I am trying to use a charmm forcefield (I have tried 2017 and 2021) and Gromacs. I get an error when doing pdb2gmx Residue 'ZN'...

12 February 2021 9,367 2 View

Help with Amyloid beta detection protocol (western-blotting)?

Hi everyone, I am a first year PhD student working on amyloidosis. I would like some tips and tricks to crack efficiently my current nightmare, i.e. the western blotting of the Amyloid beta and...

11 February 2021 2,513 3 View