What are the effects of longer exposure to siRNA (for KD)?

1) I knocked down a protein and collected cells 24 h and 72 h after transfection with Lipofectamine (to note, 5 h after transfection medium was replaced with medium with FBS). 2) KD efficiency...

08 December 2020 9,850 1 View

Why is hard to produce antibodies that are specific to a protein?

Some antibodies reveal nonspecific bands when a western blot is performed. Why is hard to find a good antibody for a protein? Antibodies produced using as the immunogen a synthetic peptide or a...

03 December 2020 208 3 View

Why different antibodies for the same protein stain different places?

I tried two antibodies and one show stain in the cytoplasm and the other one in the nucleus. Why? (Blue - dapi; red - mitochondria; green - protein of interest) And why is hard to find a good...

24 November 2020 6,612 7 View

Do you have experience visualising multiplex amplification curves in LightCycler 480 Sw??

We are using Cobas z480 for multiplex RT-PCR using 3 taqman probes FAM/VIX/CY5. Once the PCR finish we want to see in the amplification curve the three results for each sample at the same time....

28 October 2020 8,372 1 View

TEACHING ESL in the lockdown - participants needed?

Dear English lecturers (teachers, instructors), I am conducting research into ESL teaching to increase our understanding of how teachers have experienced special teaching conditions during the...

14 October 2020 7,223 6 View

Why does mitotracker red stains the nucleus?

I'm working with NT2 cells and I use mitrotracker red (400 nM) to stain the mitochondria. I incubate it with cell medium for 30 min, fix with 4% PFA, permeabilize with PBST (0.2%-0.5% Triton...

11 August 2020 8,076 3 View

What psychometric properties should be reported for a translated version of a questionnaire?

Dear collegues, I performed a cross-cultural study using two questionnaires (66 and 12 items). The original version of these questionnaires was used in the first country, and these tools were...

27 April 2020 4,097 9 View

USRP N210_ RF1 and RF2 dont work ?

Hi, I am working on USRP N210 and Matlab 2016R. I want a transfer a Sinusoidal wave from one port of Antenna and want to receive same wave from second Antenna at one USRP N210 (unfortinaly I...

28 January 2020 5,568 3 View

Problem in modulating miRNA expression (both over-expression and knock-down) in mouse cell lines?

Hi everybody, we are working with let-7 family and we would like to perform knock-down of the let-7 using Lin28 expression vector. In another experiment we would like to over-express let-7g from a...

20 September 2017 9,420 2 View

Can anyone help with a PCR insertion/deletion genotyping problem?

09 July 2014 4,184 3 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Are protein samples in SDS compatible with ELISA?

I have used an AllPrep DNA/RNA/Protein Mini Kit QIAGEN kit to extract RNA and protein from my samples. At the end of the protein purification, I resuspend my protein in 5% SDS. Will these samples...

28 February 2021 7,370 3 View

Can water be extracted from Olivine?

I have always been interested in geology and wondered about how unique structures of materials behave in different circumstances. I stumbled upon Olivine, the magnesium iron silicate, and heard...

28 February 2021 7,330 4 View

How does charge on working electrode changes with rising potential?

During performing CV of a GCE or modified GCE, we rise the potential in the first half of the cycle and reduce it in reverse half. During the first half, what is the nature of charge on GCE or...

25 February 2021 7,994 3 View

How to replicate the well conditions of a crystal hit with 20%(w/v) isopropanol?

I had a crystal hit in a well with 0.1M HEPEs pH 7.5, 10%(w/v) PEG 4000, and 20%(w/v) isopropanol. Why is isopropanol in w/v here if it's just solvent? How do I recreate this well condition?

25 February 2021 9,761 1 View

How to best wash a 96-well plate containing microplastic?

I am planning my protocol for my dissertation for an experiment quantifying bacterial (E. coli) biofilm formation on micro-plastic (5mm discs of polyethylene bags) by conducting a crystal violet...

23 February 2021 7,868 2 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

How can I improve the concentration of banana fruits extracted RNA?

Currently, I'm working with banana fruits. I've tried to do RNA extractions with different methods, and I've gotten total RNA without contamination, but I couldn't get a high concentration of...

22 February 2021 6,126 2 View

Does anyone have a working Guanidine Hydrochloride purification protocol for synthesized ssRNA?

I am trying to in vitro transcribe some fluorescein labeled ssRNA. And I want to purify the ssRNA from the free NTPs and the enzymes (RNA polymerase and DNase I). Due to the characteristic of the...

18 February 2021 4,392 4 View

What is the detection limit of ED-XRF technique for transition metals in silicon ?

Hi everybody, please, can someone tell us if the transition metals (W, Fe, Ni, etc ...) in silicon destined for solar cell manufacturing can be detected by ED-XRF technique. Note that the...

18 February 2021 6,231 4 View