PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

Quantifying leaking DNA from bacteria - what's the secret?

Hi, all! I need to determine if my treatment causes membrane damage in bacteria (S. aureus and E. cloacae), but I cannot use a fluorescent probe such as PI and similar ones because my compound is...

24 February 2021 2,006 2 View

Please let me know how to remove mycoplasma contamination from cell line?

I am facing a problem in maintaining the cell line of HepG2 and HepG2.2.15. I have used plasmocin Tm treatment (Invivo gen) Cat.#ant-mpt Lot #MPT-41-01 for more than a month. I have also used...

21 February 2021 6,046 4 View

Western blot protein of interest falling at a lower weight than expected?

My protein of interest is DAGLa (115 kDa). We received the antibody for this from another researcher who reliably shows bands at this weight. We do see a light banding at this weight, but the...

11 February 2021 6,009 3 View

Which Journals would you advise to submit a Letter which briefly talks about neurosurgical treatment of neuro-oncological patient during Sars-COV-2?

Possibily not an open access journal which does not add any publishing costs once being accepted. Thank you in advance

09 February 2021 717 6 View

Calculate pH after addition of base?

04 February 2021 2,232 4 View

Sample Size for Quasi-Experimental Quants using one-tailed t-test?

Hi, sorry I'm stumped. I'm going to do a study on the leadership styles (using the MLQ Form 5X) of minority women administrators in medical schools. How will I calculate the sample size? Thank...

30 January 2021 2,865 4 View

Can you do Ponceau staining after loading control for Western Blot?

Hello everyone! I forgot to take a picture of my Ponceau stain prior to starting my first round of primary and secondary antibodies. I'm currently doing my loading control now and was wondering...

25 January 2021 757 3 View

Western blot with very acidic proteins, any suggestions?

I am trying to do a Western Blot to detect acidic proteins (~30kDa) that have a PI of ~3.5, due to the presence of Asp and Glu repeats. The proteins are about 80% pure. After I ran them on...

24 January 2021 7,226 3 View

What is the correct way to apply a Design effect for sample size calculation when the sampling method is linear systematic random sampling?

When we are doing sampling by means of simple systematic random sampling,how do we calculate the design effect for use during calculation of sample size for our work?

20 January 2021 5,328 3 View

Anyone plz suggest relevant topic for research in image processing+Deep learning.?

I have selected brain tumor images ...but now found that already lots of research done n this topic.

03 March 2021 5,774 3 View

Can we block unwanted images during the x-ray prediction?

i am try to classify the x-ray images. During classification , can i block unwanted images (except x-ray image).

03 March 2021 7,100 1 View

I need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles that are in ~100 nm size and do high resolution TEM to look at mesopores. what grids should I use?

Need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles using the TEM. Also, need high resolution TEM images to see the mesoporous structure. Kindly suggest what kind of grids to use. Thanks, Shatadru

02 March 2021 1,787 2 View

Do I need to strip the PVDF membrane before staining it with colloidal gold?

Dear Colleagues, After running Western blot on PVDF membrane and detection using ECL, I would like to stain my PVDF with colloidal gold to be able to allign the ECL image with total proteins on...

02 March 2021 7,829 3 View

Do you know any MR image dataset?

I would like to research on MR images (0.5T and 3T). Can you please suggest some websites that I can download dataset including both 0.5T and 3T MR images? Thank you.

02 March 2021 7,735 3 View

How to find the mode of classified ocean colour images?

Hello, I have classified 10 S3 OLCI images from the same area (althouth not the same size and/or quadrant) and I would like to do a final image using the mode of the pixel of these 10 images. I...

01 March 2021 9,874 3 View

How to threshold an image despite bright lighting, using ImageJ/Fiji?

Hi everyone, I am using Fiji to determine the percentage of the image covered by leaves, branches, or trunk, but i've encountered some difficulty when the sun hits parts of my image like the one...

27 February 2021 1,194 3 View

Trouble with Charting with Google Earth Engine (Technical)?

Hello. I have a problem with the charting in google earth engine. I created an image collection by combining 5 image collections of five parameters and using ee.Join.inner ( ) and .apply ( )...

26 February 2021 7,084 2 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 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