Problems with RT-PCR of respiratory syncytial virus. Any advise?

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How to find if Qualitative and Quantitative (discrete) variables have a relation?

I'm going to do a brief research about the dependance between the number of cases of Covid-19 and sex( male/female) . One of the requierements is to use inferential statistics to test the...

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Does anyone have a qPCR protocol for Lactuca Sativa?

I need to extract RNA, produce cDNA and do my measures via qPCR. How much material? Which stage of growth?

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Is PROCESS v3.5 by Andrew F. Hayes compatible with SPSS v 26 or 27 on Windows?

I installed the PROCESS Custom Dialog v3.5 by Andrew F. Hayes on two different versions of SPSS (26 and 27, both on Windows 10) running SPSS as an administrator and using the 'extension' menu....

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What are the digital competencies that university professors/trainers need to perform well & answer the demands of digital transformation businesses?

I would like to have access to academic research that compares the skills needed by university professors and corporate education instructors or facilitators. I would like to understand if the...

29 November 2020 442 3 View

Is there any research on in-vitro meat about sporadic cancerous cells and their possible impact?

The high rate of proliferation required of stem cells could produce genetic instability which may result in sporadic cancerous cells. Is there any research on this?

10 September 2020 3,666 1 View

Which is the best transfection method for cell lines that growth in suspension?

We are trying to transfect lymphoma cell lines, and we have tried several methods, the best is through the use of lentivirus of course, but in this pandemic days is very difficult to import this...

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Do you have in your country a regulation on sewage sludge in agriculture?

If in your country a regulation on sewage sludge for agriculture exists, please could me specify which microbiological parameters and limit values have been established? Thank you very much in advance

04 December 2019 8,690 3 View

Social media_systematic participation to giveaways?

I am analysing the outcomes of a pilot project involving people' reaction (reaches and engagements) to posts related to plastic pollution. To enhance engagement we proposed "challenges" i.e....

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Where does a single nucleotide ambiguity in sequencing of a digested plasmid, that was not in the original plasmid, come from?

We have been having issues with this certain plasmid for a while: we were trying to remove one gene (GFP) and replacing it with another. The digest of the original plasmid with BamHI and NotI...

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Is anyone working with phosphorylated-S6K antibodies?

I am currently working with mTOR inhibitors and assessing their effect through the phosphorylation of S6K, but apparently the antibodies I am using are not specific enough. I am attaching an...

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In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

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How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

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Should we change media after1st 6hrs after plating HUVEC bought from INVITROGEN?it's not recomended by invitrogen.Will DMSO present in stock matter?

We have HUVEC bought from Invitrogen. Cat no -C-003-5c. while first plating the cells we have bought the protocol suggests not to centrifuge the cell with media to remove the DMSO. Should we...

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PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

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Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

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How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

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How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

Are protein samples in SDS compatible with ELISA?

I have used an AllPrep DNA/RNA/Protein Mini Kit QIAGEN kit to extract RNA and protein from my samples. At the end of the protein purification, I resuspend my protein in 5% SDS. Will these samples...

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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...

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