Can anyone help me to remove a hydrophobic peptide from C18 column?

I have injected a hydrophobic peptide into analytical C18 column and i have tried to cleaning the column applying a lot of protocols using acetonitrile, methanol, isopropanol, but in the blank...

05 January 2021 3,305 3 View

Could you help with a doubt regarding UDF velocity inlet profile with multiphase mixture (Ansys Fluent)?

We are two undergraduate students seeking for help!!! We are trying to simulate a laminar flux through a 3D pipe (25 cm long, 2 cm of diameter) consisting of a multiphase flux (air and water). We...

23 November 2020 3,918 3 View

What is the role of Digital Services in Crisis, Disaster, and Emergency Situations?

06 January 2020 7,241 4 View

How to dissolve Ibuprofen?

I need to obtain IBU aqueous solution. Some papers report that they dissolve it in water/methanol (90/10). But it did not work. What to use to dissolve it? Some buffer or NaOH? Or maybe some salt....

05 May 2019 6,575 1 View

How come conductivity increased at very low concentrations of CuSO4 after sorption of activated carbon?

I was investigating the sorption of activated carbon on different concentrations of copper(II)sulfate and came across rather unexpected results where the conductivity increased at 0,00001 , 0,0001...

24 November 2018 6,855 3 View

What is a good cycling method for 27F and 519R primers? Tm is 56 and 66, can they be used as a pair?

I'm trying to generate a smaller fragment of 16S from a water sample, so it can be NGS amplicon sequenced. The limit of that service is about 500bp.

14 March 2018 8,032 2 View

Can I use aneuploidy for crossing?

Dear Collegues, we are going to make segregating population of tea plant (camellia sinensis) for genetic research. we need 200 progenies. Can we use aneuploid cultivar as one of the parents to...

19 October 2017 8,451 3 View

Protocol of fungal dna extraction from plant leaf tissue?

Dear collegues, Can we use protocols of DNA extraction from plant tissues (from leaves) to extract DNA of fungal pathogen which lives inside of tissue? If yes, will the quantity of the pathogen's...

11 April 2017 8,448 31 View

If I have low bootstrap values in a ML tree, does it mean that there is no separation between different genera?

I have a maximum likelihood tree (18S and COI) for a nematode family which contains 4 different genera. The bootstrap values were very low and all the 4 genera are intermingled in both trees with...

27 June 2016 593 5 View

Why does the PCR not work occasionally?

Dear collegues! we extracted RNA from apple peel. We need clean RNA without DNA contamination, so we check our RNA samples by PCR. Samples are fresh. and reagents are the same. BUT one time PCR...

24 March 2015 4,855 12 View

Can linear DNA be used as template for site-directed mutagenesis?

Is it possible to induce site-directed substitution mutation by quick-change method on linear dsDNA? or it has to be cloned in some vector? If yes, should it be treated with the Dpn1 enzyme...

03 March 2021 401 4 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

Expression cloning by using cDNA,do I need to modify the cDNA first?

I am going to have a expression cloning of mammalian gene by using shuttle plasmid to transforming the E.coli However I don't know I should only inserting the Coding sequence ,or I can...

28 February 2021 5,440 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

Difficulty in cloning of 1kb gene into vector?

I am facing difficulties in cloning a 1kb gene into a vector (pJIT163). I have my gene on interest (GOI) in pUC57 and want to clone in pJIT163 using SalI and BamHI restriction sites. I am getting...

25 February 2021 3,221 7 View

How to get the vector of a specific vibration mode in phonon dispersion?

For example, I have this phonon dispersion(Fig. 1), and now I would like get vector of atoms which describes TA1 in P. I know v_sim can show vibrational animation of specific mode, but I do not...

20 February 2021 4,332 4 View

Specify the Burgers vectors for dislocations, which cannot be uniquely identified.?

1. A bcc metal single crystal was sliced along (1 -1 0) plane for TEM study. Assuming that the TEM available is equipped with a goniometer stage which tilts up to 45o. The Burgers vector of...

20 February 2021 2,370 1 View

I am working on image transmission, i converted the image into binary vector, i want to extract the MSB of each pixel ?

i have a vector 1*512 size, i want to take the first value every 8 elements and put these elements at the end of the vector,how to do this on matlab ?

19 February 2021 2,352 5 View

Why are Sanger Sequencing reads interrupted in some edited clones?

I have a Crispr/Cas9 edited bulk population and I can briefly check the indel ratios in the bulk population using Sanger sequencing. After cloning single cells, I wanted to check the indel types...

18 February 2021 8,198 6 View

What is the cause of the banding obtained after purifying the PCR product with ExoSAPIT?

Hello We are working on a PCR product with an approximate size between 5000 and 7000 bp, we want to use it as a positive internal control, since we have sequenced it and it corresponds to the...

17 February 2021 2,896 3 View