How to get pure exosomal miRNA population free of contaminats like miRNA bound to lipoprotein, Ago2? or is it not necessary?

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Why is the sum of the elements in a row in a Q matrix equal to zero?

When explaining substitution models, the substitutions are expressed as Q matrix. Why is the sum of the elements in a row zero?

28 February 2021 3,864 3 View

What is the method of removing RNase contamination from a filter paper surface?

I am working on a biosensing project on paper substrate, however, it is found that the RNase contamination occurs on the filter paper. Might I ask is there any method to clean the paper surface...

12 February 2021 3,926 3 View

What is causing the raw fluorescence to be negative?

Hi everyone, I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me when and why a raw fluorescence starts below zero. In the picture attached below the blue colour curve starts from a negative...

09 February 2021 4,642 3 View

Regarding immunology, transmissivity, herd immunity and vaccines in Sars CoV-2?

This is a follow-up on an earlier question regarding mechanistics of vaccines: why current vaccines don't block transmission. In summary, they don't engage mucosal immune cells to produce IgA....

08 February 2021 8,321 3 View

How can I enter the load increment values to the Abaqus?

In Abaqus I know that there are two methods for incrementation (Automatic and fixed incrementation). I want to control the incrementation by myself. I want to input the values of load increment...

03 February 2021 6,943 3 View

Desalting using DSC- 18 SPE columns?

I am looking forward to remove excess of salt form my metal based porphyrin and trying DSC-18 columns for the same, can someone suggest me how how can one decide the polarity of the solvent to...

01 February 2021 9,076 1 View

Distortion problem in Abaqus explicit?

Dear all. I'm modeling the RC column with cyclic displacement by Abaqus-Explicit. The concrete model used Concrete Plastic Damage model. However I'm facing with a error about the excessive...

01 February 2021 7,726 1 View

I am finding a lot of cellular debris in the culture flask? What are the reason behind it?

I am facing a problem that cellular debris observed in my SHSY5Y cells. I have seeded the cells in DMEM media with 10% FBS in T-25/ 60mm dish (antibiotic used PEN-Strepand gentamycin). I have also...

17 January 2021 3,074 3 View

Can we use two antibodies generated in same species for indirect Sandwich ELISA?

I have generated two antibodies against two peptide fractions of a protein in the rabbit. I want to use these two antibodies (Ab-1 and Ab-2) in indirect sandwich ELISA for the detection of...

11 January 2021 1,754 4 View

What is the reason for discontinued Stage II fatigue crack growth in pearlitic steel?

Conventionally, the process of Stage II fatigue crack growth is governed by Paris law with less microstructural effect. When fatigue crack growth test was carried out for pearlitic steels ( both...

03 January 2021 7,075 3 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 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

Are exogenous molecules transferred between human cells during doubling ?

Hello RG community, I wonderer whether exogenous molecules (e.g. reporter plasmids, miRNAs or other artificial molecules) are transferred between cultured human cells during their doubling ? So,...

21 February 2021 6,633 3 View

What is the minimum number of exosomes/ml to have a good yield of total RNA for Illumina sequencing?

I am using IZON qEV2 columns to isolate exosomes from 100 ml of cancer cell conditioned medium. in NTA analysis I usually see concentration of 2x10^9 particles/ml. But when I proceed with this...

20 February 2021 6,879 3 View

Hi..how to isolate crude HDL (all subfractions) from human serum by size exclusion chromatography?

I would like to know about isolation of crude HDL from serum by SEC. Is it possible to perform with a serum sample volume of

19 February 2021 5,576 2 View

Has anyone encountered any problems with abm good microRNA primers for quantification of mature miRNAs?

I've been trying to quantitate mature microRNAs in 293T cells with and without 'X'. 2ug of total RNA (isolated by Trizol method) is converted to cDNA using All-in one microRNA cDNA synthesis kit...

17 February 2021 8,986 2 View

Any model suggestion for the Electronic Health Records dataset ?

I have sequentially measured the time-series Electronic Health Record patient dataset. This is 7 years of research and each patient's blood pressure, Hba1c, LDL, Hb, Baseline Age,...were measured...

09 February 2021 4,933 8 View

What is the best way to fix plasma derived miRNA for subsequent cDNA synthesis?

I need to quantify blood plasma derived miRNA through q-RT-PCR. For this I need to fix RNA content in my cDNA reaction. What is the best way to do this? Currently, I take readings of my plasma...

03 February 2021 9,330 3 View

What is the general miRNA yield one gets from the Qiagen miRNEASY serum/plasma advanced kit?

I am using the Qiagen miRNEASY serum/plasma advanced kit, using 400ul of frozen plasma. What is the yield you get on average? I am using nanodrop currently for quantification. I am getting...

02 February 2021 8,806 2 View

Which miRNA arm is a right target for analysis, 3p or 5p?

I'm working on selecting mouse miRNAs to analyze and stumbling upon one confusing issue, some of the papers do not specify which arm they analyzed and they just state something like " miR-34a was...

16 January 2021 3,792 4 View