How to design best primers to amplify a region in mice genomic DNA?

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Hello, I have a CRISPR related question. Can anyone help me?

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If I’m expressing a mammalian protein in bacteria, can I use an antibody for the protein that has species reactivity for human, for Immunobloting ?

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How do I amplify a 7.4 KB fragment in mouse genomic DNA ?

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Has anyone tried using zeta probe membrane in DNA slot blotting?

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Anyone familiar with DBCO -CY5?

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Can anyone suggest me a method to analyse altered replication dynamics other than DNA fiber analysis?

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Can anyone help me with this Urea-PAGE gel issue?

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I can't see the ssDNA band after performing asymmetric PCR. Is there any way to do this?

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Does crude extraction using NaOH and Tris work well with Fungi?

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Why after performing site directed mutagenesis ,I don't see any colony after transformation?

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Genomes for selected organisms (primary reference assembly only)

Frederic Lepretre

Hi Lakshani,

Md Abdur Rahim send you a good way to test your primers once you'll get the sequence from the same website (http://genome-euro.ucsc.edu). choose your species and target and you'll arrive at the right place to download the genomic sequence.

fred