Why and how to avoid negative values in optical density by spectrophotometry when measurements corrected by blank solvent?

I am trying to assess chlorophyll-a content from coral tissue using spectrophotometry (with SPECTROstar Nano, BMG). However, I always seem to obtain some negative values in my optical density raw...

20 January 2021 1,542 4 View

What is the best way to differentiate L. rhamnosus and L. casei in plate co-cultivation?

I'm having troubles in the differentiation and quantitation of each bacteria population during co-cultivation. The morphologic characteristics are very similar and it's really difficult to count...

13 January 2021 1,550 1 View

Have you ever included two last authors in the co-authorship of a publication?

Hello, As you must know, it is now sometimes possible to have several co-first authors in the co-authorship of a scientific publication, when two persons led the paper and had equal contribution...

21 September 2020 2,995 5 View

Which is the viscosity recommended for using Methyl cellulose to perform oral gavage (mice )?

Hello, we would like to perform oral gavage in mice. The vehicle recommended for our drug consist on 0.5% methylcellulose and 5% Dimethylacetamide (0.1 ml/ 10g mouse). Could somebody help us to...

20 August 2020 8,720 2 View

How does internal resistance affects the self discharge in a super capacitor?

If ESR doubles for instance, what should we expect for self discharge?

30 May 2019 3,190 0 View

Article - Research to evaluate the compaction of soils under > 2 years test ?

13 August 2018 9,973 4 View

Wich are the best combination of Restriction Enzimes for double digestion?

I want to do a RFLP assay for DNA of bacteriophages. in this case I want to performance double digestion because not all restriction enzimes cut the specific sequence of strands of DNA. thanks...

06 July 2018 4,134 1 View

Why is RFLP technology so popular for phage studies?

In many papers I see that is so popular the use of RFLP for phages studies? why not use others techniques (PCR,).

04 May 2018 8,407 0 View

Exosome Quantification

24 May 2017 3,750 3 View

Somebody had use Millipore ECM590 | Blood Vessel Staining Kit?

Im trying to use it with cow tissue, but I don't know if Im doing the protocol right.

24 August 2016 3,467 1 View

Protein-aptamer gel electrophoresis help, please??

Hi, I have problems with running gel electrophoresis. I have tried agarose gel electrophoresis and native PAGE. I have two proteins, which have molecular weights of ~30kDa and ~180kDa and two...

03 March 2021 4,275 4 View

What are some important techniques for protein induction and SDS-PAGE analysis?

Hello everyone. I am fairly new in protein chemistry field. I am trying to perform a protein induction hoping to purify my protein of interest using FPLC method. However, I am having trouble on...

03 March 2021 8,237 3 View

SDS page software for analysis?

I did sds page to determine the difference in protein expression between 3 types of vaccine , but i don't have scanner or densitometer available. . so i wonder if there is a software to analyze...

02 March 2021 6,270 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

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

How can I represent SDS-PAGE results for machine learning analysis?

I am trying to classify and analyze the results of an SDS-PAGE based array for bacterial detection using machine learning, but I have trouble finding the best way to represent the results with...

27 February 2021 9,176 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