Species identification.Who can tell me the scientific names of these Gastropods?

Species identification. I've been doing research on communities of marine macrobenthos recently, but some of them can't be identified, which hinders my research. Who can help me identify these...

14 December 2020 8,357 3 View

I alway get serval big plaques even with very high concentration of bacteriophages. how to get well-distributed plaques with double layer agar method?

I used MS2 (ATCC 15597-B1) strain to do my experiment. I always get serval big plaques (like the picture I attached), but not a plate which has a lot of small plaques I saw from other research....

15 November 2020 7,488 4 View

How can I make the Gold-Antibody conjugate stable ?

I did competitive lateral flow immunoassay using gold bridge method. Antigen-fluorescence bead and immobilized antigen on the PMMA membrane is no problem to measure the optical absorption at 37...

24 August 2020 2,684 4 View

How to represent damping in a system with nonlinear stiffness?

We all know that damping can represent by Damping ratio and Natural frequency . We can represent the damping in terms of ( ''Linear stiffness - The first term in the nonlinear stiffness )...

25 May 2020 6,323 7 View

RNA extraction methods for virus w/o centrifuge?

20 April 2020 4,990 3 View

Anyone has experience in "ligation-free in vivo DNA assembly in E. coli"?

There is a recent publication titled "In vivo DNA assembly using common laboratory bacteria: A re-emerging tool to simplify molecular cloning" (J. Biol. Chem, 2019; doi:...

05 March 2020 153 3 View

How to express and purify Zinc-binding proteins?

We are working on a protein that is predicted to contain a zinc finger (ZnF). Could someone share your experience working with ZnF proteins? Should we add Zn during expression in E. coli? If so,...

23 February 2020 2,125 1 View

A few questions about neoantigens for cancer therapy?

In trying to getting more effective neoantigens for cancer therapy, I have some questions as followings. 1. T-cell activation is considered to be more important than B-cell activation. Which...

01 February 2020 5,667 1 View

How to characterize formation of semi-interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structure?

Now I am working on synthesize semi-IPN hydrogel based on polysaccharide and vinyl based monomers. Is there any direct characterization method to confirm formation of the semi-IPN structure?...

15 January 2020 2,269 1 View

Why do the recrystallized grains produced by annealing after cold working have different orientations?

09 May 2019 9,420 2 View

Do anyone here can help us in the field of molecular docking?

We have synthesized various metal complexes with different environment around the metals. Now to see the application of synthesized complexes we need this study also. we are also interested in...

01 March 2021 1,899 2 View

How to simultaneously perform multiple biochemical assays?

I am a research scholar working on heavy metal stress on plants. I will be doing biochemical characterisation( protein, carbohydrate, proline, antioxidant enzymes and many more assays) at interval...

01 March 2021 6,999 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

What is the most suitable server for predicting protein structures in bacteria?

I have used the i-Tasser several times, however it has been unavailable for several days. I tried the swiss-model, but the output was not very pleasant due to the model used. Is there any other...

28 February 2021 4,521 3 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 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