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

What is the status of bread making and more bakery foods with the use of insect flour/powder?

Insects have been consumed by human diet since prehistoric times. At present, the idea of looking at insects as food has been getting traction worldwide, also in response to increasing food...

03 March 2021 6,223 5 View

Why Austenite grains in steel show much more twinning than ferrite grains?

It is oftentimes said to be a distinctive metallographic trait that differentiates a fully austenitic and a fully felly ferritic steel without etching that might distinguish between two. Why...

02 March 2021 728 2 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Why am I not able to use all VEP programs for the in silico analysis of avpr1b SNP's?

Good day researchers I am busy analysing the predicted effects of certain SNP's in AVPR1b. When using the VEP prediction programs (SIFT, Polyphen, FATHMM, LRT, Provean, Mutation Assessor, and...

28 February 2021 5,197 1 View

What is the difference between genotype and haplotype data in the ped format?

Hi everybody In the ped format for genotype, alleles of any SNP are represented by two columns (one for each allele, separated by a space). Is a column sufficient for the haplotype to...

27 February 2021 1,965 1 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

How to search for crystal structure for material with atomic position labelled?

I am using the crystallographic open database and materials project to search for cif file but the exact structure is not mentioned or how can I deduce that the given structure and atomic position...

23 February 2021 6,723 2 View

Have anyone checked before Cyclic voltammograms of intial ITO substrate and E-teck?

As a beginner in electrochemistry, I tried to obtain cyclic voltamograms of commercial anatase powder deposited on an ITO substrate or on Eteck. After several attempts, I noticed that my cyclic...

23 February 2021 3,175 3 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

What kind of steel moulds are used for hot pressing metal powders?

My main concern is that the metal powders should not weld to the mold surface and I should easily be able to eject out the pressed samples. I am looking for alternative for graphite moulds. The...

22 February 2021 2,965 4 View