Adjust annealing temperature or additives to enhance specificity of PCR?

Dear All, I have a very basic question about the PCR/RT-PCR/qPCR. The PCR primers and TaqMan probes are designed such that the primers/probe connot bind to the mismatched site but only...

15 June 2020 4,926 3 View

Can lenti-virus plasmid be integrated into the genome of 293T cells?

293T cells can be used as producer cells of lentivirus particles to infect other target cells(eg, in order to over-express or silence a gene ), but I was wondering if the virus in turn to infect...

10 December 2019 4,763 2 View

Will the TaqMan probe length affect the fidelity of the qPCR assay?

Dear all, I am learning to design the qPCR assays recently. But I just don't know why my negative controls always give positive signal( I have changed my design twice). I checked the formation of...

07 October 2019 4,968 3 View

Effect of mRNA secondary structure on reverse transcription?

Dear Sir/ Madam, I am designing a primer for microRNA reverse transcription. But some microRNAs like hsp-mir-21-5p has a strong secondary structure. It forms a stable hairpin. Can anyone please...

08 September 2019 8,283 3 View

Annealing temperature set-up for short primer of 11 bases?

Dear all, I am amplifying a target sequence of 65 bases, which is a cDNA sequence now. For some reasons, my PCR primer can only bind to the target sequence with 11 bases in the first PCR cycle....

30 October 2018 802 7 View

Incomplete quenching of molecular beacon?

Dear all, I am detecting mRNAs with hairpin molecular beacon. The 5' end of the hairpin oligo is modified with BHQ1 and the 3' end FAM. After I dissolved the hairpin in NF water, I dispensed one...

26 August 2018 4,682 4 View

Does anyone has problem using crystalmaker 8 on El Capitan system?

Recently I update the system to El Capitan and crystalmaker 8 can not function at all. I emailed the company and they said it's only me, which suggested my mac system has some corruption. I am...

20 March 2016 9,829 1 View

Can anyone tell me your daily diet for Bongo Tragelaphus eurycerus?

15 March 2015 3,465 4 View

How can I integrate a routing protocol in a tiny device (e.g. Raspberry Pi)?

Hi Community, I'm facing the issue of integration/compiling a new routing protocol in a WSN simulator. The final goal is to successfully add, configure this routing protocol in hardware devices...

01 March 2021 9,332 6 View

In Molecular Dynamics Simulation, how do I make changes to the force field according to my protein?

Hi In Molecular Dynamics Simulation, how do I make changes to the force field according to my protein? I got this error in the add-ion stage: Fatal error "./ amber99sb-ildn-HHH.ff / force...

01 March 2021 8,747 4 View

What is Flat Lens Antenna?

28 February 2021 5,433 3 View

How to improve and implement WBAN MAC and Radio modules under Castalia 3.2 ?

Hello researchers, Hello Castalia3.2 researchers I am a beginner with Castalia, I work on optimization of RFID systems used in wireless body networks. I simulated a WBAN with 10 nodes and one...

28 February 2021 400 1 View

D2D implementation in Matlab in Vienna LTE software?

Hi Hope you are well. Can you please share your code for D2D implementation in Matlab. I want to implement D2D in Matlab based Vienna simulator and struggling to deploy D2D. Thanks

24 February 2021 9,378 3 View

What software programs can directly simulate Additive Manufacturing Directed Energy Deposition (DED)?

I understand there are a lot of software programs that can simulate DED by going through specific modeling, simulation, and commands. For me, that was time consuming and results were not accurate....

24 February 2021 4,428 3 View

Is it possible to set a breakpoint at a specific DYNAMIC instruction using the GNU Debugger (GDB)?

Using GDB, it is straightforward to debug and monitor a target program by setting a break-point at a specific instruction, since the instruction addresses are known. However, we have two...

24 February 2021 1,598 2 View

Langevin Dynamics in shear flow?

Hi, We are trying to simulate particles with Langevin dynamics in a shear flow by Lees-Edwards boundary conditions in MD simulations. It seems thermal forces and shear flow do not go hand in...

23 February 2021 1,761 1 View

Why does the sum of reaction forces not match the force component of a Free Body Cut in Abaqus?

I am using Abaqus to simulate a plate with in-plane loading. The boundary conditions allow the right edge to move up and down, the displacements on the left edge are fixed. There is no rotation...

23 February 2021 711 3 View

Should I use Pressure Based Solver or a Density-Based Solver?

Dear researchers, I want to simulate a flow (air) in a wind tunnel, and I want to integrate a fluidic actuator inside it in order to control the separation of the boundary layer. At the blower...

22 February 2021 4,882 3 View