How to ensure a marker antibody won't activate T cells and affect the result?

I'm recently buying some anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 to activate T cells. I also notice some of this clones have been conjugated with fluorescence for the purpose of labeling T cells for flow...

09 October 2019 962 4 View

Why my gene in single-cell sequencing showed zero value?

I have many single-cell sequencing data. I checked my gene of interest in these data. However, all of these single-cell sequencing data showed that my gene has no expression, no matter in immune...

31 December 2018 3,638 3 View

Why can't I detect the surface protein by western blot?

I was doing an over-expression experiment of a gene for a year. It is a surface protein. The biggest trouble is that I can never detect the gene overexpression by western blot. Interestingly, when...

10 November 2018 7,195 3 View

Why some cancers are not prone to mutate?

When I first learn cancer biology, my teacher told me that cancer is usually caused by the loss of tumor suppressor , which is like you loss your brake. After it losses the suppressor, it tends...

05 June 2018 8,052 2 View

Are there any cancer cell lines that can form tumor in nude mice but not in normal (immune competent) mice?

Are there any mouse cancer cell lines that can form tumor in nude mice but not in normal (immune competent) mice? Please give me some examples. Thanks.

04 May 2018 6,666 2 View

What are the current applications of Artificial Intelligence in biology or cancer?

AI seems to be pretty popular these days and there are many applications in our daily life. But are there any AI designed to help our researchers to solve any biology questions?

04 May 2018 4,024 3 View

Why don't use ampicillin to select transduced mammalian cells?

Why don't use ampicillin to select transduced mammalian cells? also, I saw some lenti-vector is Bleo Resistant, is bleo used as bacteria selector or mammalian cells selector?

03 April 2018 7,544 0 View

Can I cut the two ends of a gene with same restriction site and clone it to a vector?

The two ends of my gene have same restriction sites. And the destination vector also has two same sites. Can I clone the gene directly to the destination vector? I know it's possible that the gene...

03 April 2018 8,318 4 View

What's the antibiotic cell selection for plasmid FUGW?

According to the website https://www.addgene.org/14883/, it has bleomycin resistance. However, bleomycin can be used both for bacteria selection and cell selection. Then what is the cell...

03 April 2018 3,768 1 View

For CRISPR, transfection or transduction?

For CRISPR, transfection or transduction? The CRISPR vectors I bought is lenti vector, so I can either do transfection or transduction. But which is better??

02 March 2018 2,193 4 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 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

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 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

How to avoid ulcers in s.c. injected tumors ?

Recently, we have injected s.c. B16F10 tumor cells in BL/6 mice. At around 12-15th day some animals showed ulcerations in tumors , with a big hole in the middle (it looks like a volcano). We have...

01 March 2021 9,938 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 View