Can anyone help me how to get the similar bands in Actin?

I run western blot on HCT-116 cell lines, I got actin band like in the attached picture. The band size is not same. Can anyone help me explain this situation and how to overcome? Thank you your...

22 February 2021 6,937 3 View

How big the Balb/c mice spleen after immunization?

I am working with Balb/c mice, and in my experiment, I have to inject mice with antigens, then get their spleen and collect the splenocytes for fusion. Recently, I get into trouble with the mouse...

04 January 2021 3,591 3 View

Capture of oleophilic solid polymers present in water solution ?

I am looking for articles, coferences, publications or thesis concerning the capture of solid oleophilic polymers in solution in water. Thanks Thierry Le Blan

01 January 2021 5,798 3 View

Hybridoma stops producing antibodies after thawing from liquid nitrogen?

Dear scholars, Our research is currently involved with hybridoma technology. We have isolated some original clones after fusion and we are preparing the subclone step to find some true positive...

01 December 2020 1,178 3 View

Suggestion for normal ovary cell lines?

Dear all, I want to choose a normal ovary cell line and check for its proliferation property when introducing carcinogenic factors. Does anyone have any suggestions for the cell line? Many thanks...

08 November 2020 9,100 3 View

What is Snapback Primer in realtime PCR?

Dear all, I find a paper using Snapback primer. I do not understand the function of snapback tail? What is snapback primer? When do we use snapback primer? and why we use that? Thank you.

01 November 2020 8,869 2 View

Rotation matrix - 3D dimension to 2D dimension?

22 October 2020 9,354 4 View

Am I introducing any potential loss of RNA integrity by combining an RNALater solution with a non-ionic detergent?

I am planning to characterise the transcriptome of pre-anthesis kiwifruit anthers. The samples are being harvested on my behalf and sent down by post, and I cannot ask the harvesters to dissect...

10 October 2020 1,830 3 View

Why we got instability results when simulating elastic waves (Lamb waves) at high frequency using Abaqus?

Hi, I am trying to model Lamb waves propagation in an Aluminum plate using Abaqus. If I choose the frequency of 5-cycle Hanning excitation source is 0.2 MHz (to make sure that only 2 modes S0 and...

18 August 2020 7,022 8 View

Ion torrent - What happens if the amplicons are too long?

Hello everyone, What happens if I try to sequence with Iron torrent amplicons (eg of a marker gene) that are too long? By that I mean more than 500bp. We did try (not on purpose, we did not...

11 August 2020 368 3 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

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

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 calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration fors?

Warm greetings My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology (on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 1,660 3 View