Can you please suggest a good and simple Lysis Buffer?

Dears, I am working with beetles and used to extract DNA mostly with kits. Now we extract with phenol-chloroform, but I would need to prepare a Lysis buffer. I am more entomologist than chemist,...

10 November 2016 2,930 7 View

How can I best extract DNA from museum beetle specimens?

Even I have tried several kits and protocols, I almost always fail to extract DNA from the museal specimens (ca 10-20 years old) of beetles. I would need to amplify commonly used fragments like...

31 December 2014 5,267 6 View

Can anyone help with Cytochrome b primers working on Trichoptera samples?

I would very appreciate any suggestions about primers for cytochrome b, that work well on Trichoptera samples. We used some primers from Simon et al 1994, but with very low success. The template...

05 June 2014 1,939 4 View

Elmidae samples for DNA extraction

I am working on taxonomy and phylogeny of the riffle beetles (Coleoptera: Elmidae), using molecular characters. Due to that I try to get as many elmid samples from all around the World, as...

01 February 2013 9,171 2 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

Where i will get the Desmodium and Napier grass seeds?

26 February 2021 975 4 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration fors?

Warm greetings My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology (on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 1,660 3 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration forms?

Warm greetings! My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology focusing on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample (Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 3,612 3 View

Uncertianiny in using dry or wet basis in mixing a sediment with fuel oil?

Hello I'm currently working on a topic related to studying the anaerobic biodegradation of TPH in marine sediments. In this work, sediment should be mixed with fuel oil to a concentration of 20 g...

24 February 2021 9,839 3 View

What urea buffer can i use for biotagged protein extraction from streptavidin beads?

Hi all, I have been doing research on biotagged LDB1 proteins in Mel cells. I purify the proteins using M280 streptavidin beads. The yield is very low so I've been trying to optimize it by...

24 February 2021 5,749 3 View

What is the biochemistry of acidic solvents for phenolics extraction in strawberry?

I am using the Folin-Ciocalteu method for analysis of total phenolic content in ripe strawberries. I've read several protocol that suggest a methanol/H2O/formic acid (80:19:1) extraction solution....

22 February 2021 6,560 3 View

Protocol for membrane extraction E. coli?

Hello! I am interested in determining whether a poly-unsaturated fatty acid I have engineered E. coli to produce is being incorporated into the membrane of the cells or if it is simply a free...

21 February 2021 7,447 2 View

Using 1D CNN for pixel classification in an image?

I have a 3D Image of size 100x100x100. I have features (feature dimension 25) extracted for each pixel by considering a small pacth around it. So the input to 1D CNN is 100x100x100x25 reshaped to...

17 February 2021 941 4 View

Solid Phase Extraction of drug product containing nanoparticles ?

Hi Everyone, I am trying to develop an SPE method for the vaccine which contains Matrix-M (saponin Quillaja Saponaria ) which is in nano-particle form and size is around 40nm. These nanoparticles...

16 February 2021 1,389 2 View