What is the best way to manage Western blots?

Increasingly, more articles are being retracted because of duplicate or otherwise dubious Western blots. Consequently, journals are asking for original Western blots and authentication of...

23 February 2021 8,609 3 View

Describe a serious ethical dilemma you have experienced. Use the 12 questions developed by Laura Nash to offer a solution to the problem?

Describe a serious ethical dilemma you have experienced. Use the 12 questions developed by Laura Nash to offer a solution to the problem.

21 February 2021 9,133 2 View

How to perform Haldane correction on SPSS?

I was wondering if anyone knew how to perform the Haldane correction for SPSS (this is the definition of the correction -...

21 February 2021 2,882 1 View

Is it possible to quantify recombinant protein in the supernatant using SDS PAGE ?

I would like to quantify a recombinant protein (with native signal sequence) secreted by Pichia pastoris using the SDS PAGE. Since my standard protein (plant origin) is not pure, I would like to...

07 February 2021 3,880 9 View

How to analyze dendritic spines from tissue (Prelimbic cortex)?

Hi there, I am trying to measure dendritic spines from mouse fixed tissue, specifically, I am looking at the prefrontal cortex. I injected the PrL with a lentivirus to knock-down my protein of...

27 January 2021 9,251 2 View

High throughput screen to identify drug induced cell death mechanism?

So I am working with a drug that we know induces cell death in MDA-MB-231 cells. In other cell lines we have been able to identify that this drug induces ferroptosis. I have also done experiment's...

25 January 2021 3,587 3 View

How can I carry out analysis of pulp and paper properties according to Tappi standard method in the Lab?

Properties such as relative humidity (T 402sp-03), brightness and yellowness (T-452 om-02), whiteness (T-560 pm-96), opacity and absorption coefficient (T-425 om-01), tensile, breaking length and...

24 January 2021 308 3 View

PROCESS V3.5.2 macro for SPSS variable name length limitations?

I just installed PROCESS V3.5 in SPSS and am receiving the follow error when I try to run a model: ERROR: Variable names should be no more than eight characters in length. I don't recall...

11 January 2021 3,448 4 View

What is the kinetics that Cr6 on the surface of the soil will preferably exchange with the charge on the surface of the iron oxide nanoparticle?

I am researching the application of iron oxide nanoparticle in the removal of heavy metal (Cr6) from soil

10 January 2021 3,167 3 View

Can anyone direct me to where I can find the X-Ray elastic constants for WC-Co or just WC?

I have searched all over the internet and I seem not to be arriving at its value. I need this value to perform some XRD measurements. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

05 January 2021 916 1 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

Is nr blast important?

Hello, I have designed a specific primer for my Gene, when I blast this primer, it just finds the mRNA of the gene, but in nr blast, I have found some CDSs that are not relevant to my Gene. Do...

05 February 2021 5,842 3 View

Multiple insertions with Q5 Site-directed mutagenesis?

03 February 2021 221 2 View

How are wild-type and mutant gene and protein isolations and analysis performed?

Considering that we hypothetically designed an experiment, we have an x gene, and we have the mutant version of this gene with a single nucleotide mutation in one of the exons. What kind of an...

22 January 2021 9,589 12 View

Should I add a promoter upstream of my CRISPR-inserted gene?

Hello, I want to insert a gene into my cells using sgRNA, Cas9, and an HDR template. The gene that I will insert into has its own promoter. Because I will cut the gene downstream of its start...

14 January 2021 1,170 2 View

How to calculate percent of identity in aligned RNA sequences with a sliding window ?

Hello, I aligned some RNA sequences to identify if some part are similar. I would like to represent my result with the similarity in y-axis and the alignement in x-axis. I want to calculate this...

13 January 2021 7,833 3 View

How to design reverse primer with ambiguous nucleotides?

How to design, reverse primer with ambiguous nucleotides?

03 January 2021 6,762 4 View

Problem executing MrBayes. Help?

Hi, I'm trying to run MrBayes 3.2.7 with a matrix of 37 species and 20561 nucleotides. I consistently receive the following error: MrBayes > Execute...

18 November 2020 3,867 3 View

Cre-loxp system does not work (lines #017455 and #017320, JAX). Why?

We bought this year two lines (#017455 and #017320) to get specific expression of channelrhodopsin2 (ChETA, in this case) in parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons. We hoped that crossing a mouse...

16 November 2020 8,701 1 View

How can I apply degenerate primer in SerialCloner (2.6.1) to run a PCR?

I have to carry out an in silico PCR on the 16S-rRNA gene of 5 random bacteria strains. I would like to evaluate the resulting amplicon of different primer pairs. Because I can only use free...

14 November 2020 2,341 2 View