EMSA troubleshooting. Protein-DNA complex not migrating, cold probe lane with multiple bands. Can anyone help?

I'm running an EMSA to show the DNA binding activity of recombinant proteins versus the Wild type. Previous assays run by my research group using a different test system show the protein-DNA...

24 February 2021 8,325 1 View

Why is my qPCR suddently not working?

I've been working with qPCR for some months now. I amplify 2 genes (PSEN2 and HN1), and the protocols are optimized for both and have been working fine. The other day I amplified HN1 for some...

21 February 2021 3,437 3 View

Can ethanol be used as an analgesic?

If ethanol has analgesic properties, why isn't it used for clinical purposes?

18 February 2021 8,227 4 View

Acid phenol:chloroform (25:24:1) for RNA extraction instead of (125:24:1)?

Hi everyone! I am about to extract RNA for RNA sequencing assays and my Invitrogen kit/protocol...

14 February 2021 1,755 3 View

Are there any public datasets of consumer complaints about service industries at the European level?

06 January 2021 1,718 2 View

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16 December 2020 9,657 5 View

Tools for analysis of interaction between lncRNAs and proteins/miRNAs?

Hi! I would like to know what tools I could use to analyze interactions between a new lncRNA and possible protein/miRNA targets. The biggest problem I had to find such tools is that the RNA we...

20 November 2020 8,331 3 View

I would like to ask some questions about concentrations of Urea 3M and 8M in two experiments?

I would like to ask if anyone knows if concentrations of Urea 3M and 8M can interfere with protein purification at Ni-NTA and Glutathione Sepharose 43 resins. Another question, Urea, at 3M and 8M...

17 November 2020 5,014 3 View

I would like to ask if anyone among you knows what is the ideal concentration of TFA to use at a chemical synthesis of peptides?

During a chemical synthesis of peptides by the F-moc method, the following happened: all the initial steps of the synthesis occurred as planned, but in the cleavage, TFA is used. In the lab, there...

02 November 2020 2,997 8 View

Can I use generalized linear mixed model to "fix" data absence?

I have some data of the diet of an omnivorous fish diet collected over 20 years. This data is divided in two seasons, the dry period (drought) and the wet period (flood), and I want to analyze the...

10 October 2020 6,546 6 View

I need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles that are in ~100 nm size and do high resolution TEM to look at mesopores. what grids should I use?

Need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles using the TEM. Also, need high resolution TEM images to see the mesoporous structure. Kindly suggest what kind of grids to use. Thanks, Shatadru

02 March 2021 1,787 2 View

How do I determine the degree of polymerization of PEG 400 based on NMR integration?

Hello, I am working on the photocatalytic degradation of PEG 400. I would like to know if it's possible to determine the degree on polymerization based on NMR integration, or by the MW of the...

02 March 2021 6,186 3 View

Do you know any MR image dataset?

I would like to research on MR images (0.5T and 3T). Can you please suggest some websites that I can download dataset including both 0.5T and 3T MR images? Thank you.

02 March 2021 7,735 3 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

Can chitosan alone can act as a reducing agent for Cu(0) nanoparticle sythesis?

[Synthesizing Cu nanoparticles without using chemical reductants]

01 March 2021 8,359 1 View

Timeout error!! Processor in the loop (PIL) using STM32F4 Matlab 2018a?

Dear Researchers I am trying to perform a PIL simulation using STM32F4 Discovery board and comunication serial USB TO TTL. During simulation I receive the following timeout error: An error...

01 March 2021 2,327 1 View

What are the new 2D nanomaterials were used for Silver nanoparticles stabilization?

In the stabilization of AgNPs are vital in current research interest. However, some of the 2D nano-materials like graphene oxide, MoS2, etc... previously used to stabilize it. But still they shown...

01 March 2021 2,207 3 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

How to check the uv-vis absorption of nanoparticle by surface plasmon resonance?

I try to check the uv-vis absorption of Indium nanoparticle. Now I am measuring in solution, can I measure it in the form of a film?

01 March 2021 930 3 View

Distribution of particles in metal matrix?

How would define the "good" and "poor" distribution of particles within the matrix. Is there a quantitative solution to assess the distribution of the particles, which then having denotation of...

28 February 2021 7,397 8 View