How to judge and prove the uniqueness of the solutions to the following two matrix equations?

It is about the matrix equation AX=B, where a, b c in A and B are independent elements, X should be made of constants. Case 1 A=[a b 0;0 0 c]; B=[a b 0 0;0 0 c c]; The solution is X=[1 0 0 0;0 1...

16 February 2021 5,698 3 View

Alpha and dense granules in platelets not visible in Transmission Electron Microscopy?

I am trying to visualize alpha and dense granules in platelets. However, it seems like the granules were not stained well. Is there any way I can improve my staining technique to obtain better...

04 February 2021 5,925 9 View

How to improve my BrdU immunostaining?

24 January 2021 414 3 View

Just face a Comsol issue dealing with magnetically hyperelastic material?

Hello all, I am just newly doing a simulation to test the deformation status of a magnetized rubber-like material, which is in-compressible, under a shifting magnetic field. Try to find the...

22 January 2021 7,427 2 View

Any tips on Fab blocking of mouse tissue?

Hi, everyone, I am working on immunostaining of bone marrow and growth plates of mice. And I have to use an mouse monoclonal Ab to do this staining. However, with only secondary goat anti-mouse...

21 January 2021 9,826 3 View

NADP+/NADPH in bacterial cell lysates?

Hello all, we'd like to pick your brain . The enzyme we're testing requires NADPH to work. We have controls showing that our reaction needs our enzyme and our enzyme definitely needs NADPH. Since...

20 January 2021 232 2 View

Any suggestions on 50um cryosection immunostaining (growth plate) ?

Hi everyone I am working on immunofluorescence of cryosection of murine growth plates. The Ab worked well on 8um cryosection. But when I stained 50um section, I found the fluorescent signals...

03 January 2021 9,531 3 View

Do anyone have experience with zymo research yeast plasmid miniprep?

Hello, I am new to yeast research. I am trying to rescue plasmid from yeast and have tried several protocols developed by researchers. But the results are not promising. I ended up buying this kit...

06 December 2020 1,251 2 View

Why are all the cells are stained by EdU when performing EdU assay?

I was wondering whether there is anyone else have this problem? As shown in the images, almost all the cells are stained with EdU, some are whole nuclei (circle 1), some are puncta inside (circle...

02 December 2020 6,911 4 View

Would there loss some bases after the repairment to the viscous ends by using T4 DNA ligase?

In constructing shRNA plasmids, I want to shorten the size of the plasmids, so I want to use two restriction enzymes for restriction digestion, and then use T4 DNA ligase for complement and smooth...

25 November 2020 3,366 2 View

Glass fiber content in a gypsum board ?

Any idea on how to get the volumic ratio of glass fiber in a gypsum board ? Thank you for your help !

01 March 2021 2,501 3 View

Interested to stain mice tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, anybody has a protocol to recommend?

Interested to stain mice brain tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, appreciate if anyone willing to offer me some guidance or suggestions! Thank you!

28 February 2021 3,951 2 View

B-mercaptoethanol (BME) protocol?

Hi everybody, I have been running a multiplex IHC which allow me to stain the same tissue with different markers (Primary Ab + Secondary conjugated Ab) (AF487, AF555, AF647). Since I would like to...

27 February 2021 5,028 2 View

Why do my MCFs not form monolayer?

Hello, I am looking for some expertise on culturing MCF7s. I purchased them from ATCC and I have been following all media and culture conditions. Media is EMEM with 10% FBS and 10ug/mL of...

27 February 2021 3,904 2 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

Why my agarose gel staining sometimes looks not homogenic but like gradient (see the figure)?

I am worried about this overexposure of the upper part of the gel in the picture. Is it possible that this is the result of too much concentration of ethidium bromide? Why is there such a big...

25 February 2021 8,140 3 View

How can we limit artifacts caused by rotation in fiber photometry?

We are trying to run fiber photometry experiments for long time scales, but we get these sinusoidal artifacts that come up. We think they may be caused by twisting of the fiber optic subject...

25 February 2021 568 1 View

Markers of mitochondrial activity in FFPE tissues?

Hello everybody, Does someone have any experience with assessing/extimating mitochondrial activity on FFPE tissues? Precisely, no TOM20, ATP5B, etc: we are trying to get an approximative idea of...

24 February 2021 4,618 4 View

Can a Golgi-stained dendritic spines picture processed by Image J be directly used for publication?

24 February 2021 3,348 2 View

Is there an appropriate CD8 antibody for IHC-P for staining human breast cancer tissues?

Hello, We are planning on staining Formalin-fixed paraffin breast cancer tissue sections (FFPE) with CD8 Ab via immunofluorescence (Tissue IF). Based on our existing protocol and imaging...

24 February 2021 9,578 4 View