Lymhpoma cell culture issues, help?

Hi! I need help for some issues in growing mantle cell lymphoma cell lines (REC-1, MAVER-1, Granta-519, Mino, Jeko-1). I noticed that it is a little bit hard to maintain a stable cell culture:...

09 February 2021 7,402 11 View

Help to set up an in vitro Bioaccessibility assay?

Hi everyone! i am looking for protocols to evaluate the bioaccessibility of carotenoids in plant matrix. Ideally the best would be a quite easy protocol that could be used massively in the lab,...

02 February 2021 5,516 2 View

How seminal was the influence of Giuseppe Campos Venuti and Federico Oliva in Italy, France, Spain and other countries?

The question is what remains in the urban planning and in our professional and intellectual experiences of Giuseppe Campos Venuti and Federico Oliva? What about discipline now? They reasoned and...

30 October 2020 5,450 4 View

Is Sytox (from Thermo Fisher Scientific) a good choice to dectect NETs in flow cytometry using whole blood?

I found several papers in the literature where Sytox (green, red, blue, or orange) is used to detect Neutrophil Extracellular Traps, but it's always used with purified neutrophils. Do you know if...

07 October 2020 5,865 2 View

HPLC Alternative for a new project?

dear collegues, i would like to know if there are any high throughput and specific techniques alternative to the HPLC analysis for protein detection and if possible their relative costs. Thank...

04 October 2020 9,928 3 View

Maximum concentration for HPLC???

Dear Collegues, I'm starting a new project and I need to know what is the maximum concentration for a sample that have to be processed by analytical HPLC. Thank you so much for the answers! Luca

01 October 2020 1,654 5 View

How to make ethyl cellulose water soluble?

Good evening, I'm looking for a way to make ethyl cellulose soluble in water. I read about a low ethoxylated formulation with a DS around 1-1,5 but I cannot find it in any shop. Is there anyone...

20 July 2020 8,592 1 View

Single cell RNA sequencing on immune cells infiltrated in tissues: what is the best way?

I am planning to investigate how immune cells infiltrated in certain tissues may change between different mouse models. If I don't want to focus on a specific immune cell type, is it possible to...

30 June 2020 1,834 3 View

Empatica E4 data processing tools and strategies?

Hello there! I am a Masters student working at EPFL with Empatica E4. For the moment, as both the device and the data from it are very new to me, I am testing the solidity of the signals. At first...

14 June 2020 6,185 2 View

Binary Classification - Machine Learning - When using which one?

Hey, I don't exactly understand how I make the decision to choose a SVM or a DNN or Linear Classifier for my binary classification problem. Are there any aspects to proove and then decide? Or is...

28 April 2020 4,728 4 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

What is involved in morphological changes of SEM images of a substance?

In the sem analysis of CaCO3 nanaoparticles, the morphology images showed spherical shaped particles but the proposed morphology for these type of nanoparticles is trigonal. I prepared the...

01 March 2021 1,960 4 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 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

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 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

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

How to make fractions of chloroform extract of plant, using seperating funnel?

28 February 2021 8,466 2 View