Why are my bands weird in this Agarose gel?

Can someone please give me some possible things that could go wrong? Here is my recipe: 0.5g Agarose 50 mL of TAE 1x 1 uL ethyl bromide. Gel was run at 100V for 1 hour. The buffer used is also TAE.

01 March 2021 9,952 3 View

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View

How to minimise the risk of being abused the profile of potential participants tagged in a social media post?

Dear colleagues, I got this one in one project I did ethics review. It's great to hear about your thoughts/experiences. "Doing an open recruitment online (i.e., via Facebook) requires public...

22 February 2021 3,322 3 View

Any suggestion on self-efficacy scale ?

Dear researchers, I am planning on conducting a research on the relationship between Language learning strategies, by Oxford (1990) and self-efficacy. I have found Morgan-Jinks Student Efficacy...

22 January 2021 8,432 3 View

I need to apply a questionnaire from an article. What statistical analysis do I need to use?

Hello, I found a survey about attitude toward language in an article which I find fit to use it in my thesis. The survey has 30 questions, which were put into 5 factors through factor analysis...

21 January 2021 9,419 3 View

Why did I obtain abnormal staining by TUNEL assay?

I use Abcam TUNEL Assay Kit - HRP-DAB (ab206386) on mouse tissues. The staining showed a pattern that I expected to see with a specific layer of cells dying due to drug treatment. But the...

12 January 2021 144 1 View

Is there a generalized method to derive current-mode model of any DC-DC converters?

Hi all, As new DC-DC converters are being proposed, associated control method should be proposed and based on the small-model signal analysis of the DC-DC converters. Using average space state...

06 January 2021 7,247 3 View

Is it need to test Cronbach's Alpha for extracted features from data?

As Cronbach's Alpha is usually used for test the reliability of measurements given by questionnaires, however, I wonder that whether I use this test for features extracted from behavioral data. I...

26 December 2020 9,602 2 View

How is datasets good?

Can you show me some ways to generate benchmark datasets?

22 December 2020 362 4 View

Ideas for Discussion of a Case-study analysis?

I am currently researching the demotivating factors and remotivating factors of high school students in my country. My study only has 13 participants, and I groups them into 3 groups depending on...

02 December 2020 2,288 3 View

How to calculate the fraction metabolized of a drug by an enzyme using clearance(ml/min) values of the metabolite formed?

I am trying to find the fraction metabolized of a drug by CYP and UGT enzymes. I am unable to get the values of fraction metabolized (Fm) directly from the literature. Can we calculate the Fm of a...

21 February 2021 5,379 2 View

How long does it take to design and validate transition state analogue inhibitors?

Hi, I'm asking from the point of view of designing a research plan: How long (approximately) can it take to determine the transition state structure of an enzyme substrate using kinetic isotope...

14 February 2021 2,610 1 View

Kinetics of Enzyme production in Recombinant E Coli?

Hello, I am trying to find kinetic information (such as rate of enzyme production etc.) on the expression of taq polymerase in E-Coli after inserting a recombinant plasmid. Any help would be...

12 February 2021 1,386 3 View

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Hello! I want to determine the activity of my in house Reverse Transcriptase enzyme. For this, I have used Thermo's Enzcheck Reverse Transcriptase assay kit. I used commercial Thermo RT enzyme to...

08 February 2021 7,285 1 View

How define one baker unit(BU) is the amount of hydrogen peroxide catalase ?

07 February 2021 2,006 1 View

Does DNA A-tailing survive after agarose gel electrophoresis and purification?

Hi everyone, I need to clone in pGEM-T vector the result of amplifying a metagenomic library by PCR with a high fidelity polymerase but I only want to clone the fragments of an specific size...

04 February 2021 6,051 8 View

What are some common oxidants used to oxidize iron sulfur clusters in proteins for techniques like EPR?

I have used potassium ferricyanide (which is likely the most common) extensively in the past, but I am curious to know if there are other oxidants that work well. I need to generate the oxidized...

29 January 2021 9,803 4 View

Papain Enzyme Assay...?

Hi all, I would like to know how can I estimate the activity of the enzyme, papain, which is used in reactions as crude latex extract of papaya. Please share some procedures if anybody having...

26 January 2021 569 4 View

Where can I find plants pyr-GC-MS data?

25 January 2021 5,403 2 View

Recombinant restriction enzyme: how strong should the corresponding methyltransferase expression level be?

Hello. We are planning expression of a restriction enzyme in E. coli, and wondering how much of the corresponding methyltransferase is needed to be expressed in order to protect the host genome...

23 January 2021 2,096 4 View