Clostridium spp. primer qPCR sequence?

31 December 2019 6,662 3 View

I change the annealing temperature, should I change the melt temperature in qPCR?

31 December 2019 8,200 3 View

Same CT for diferent dilutions/concentrations?

I am working with DNA extracted from feces. I made a qPCR using concentrations of 100, 75, 50 and 20ng final. The CT value was very similar between dilutions between 29 and 30. My positive control...

10 November 2019 7,803 8 View

Can polysaccharide contamination in DNA extraction samples cause the DNA band to appear as degraded on agarose gel (electrofluorese) reading?

The picture of gel is there

04 May 2019 184 4 View

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I already used a lysis buffer, but it did not help.

03 April 2019 5,560 3 View

Is Trizol efficient to extract dna from feces (rats)?

I will perform dna extraction from feces and kits are very expensive. I saw that extracting DNA from feces and reading PCR is a bit problematic. Has anyone used any adapted protocol? With lizosima...

01 February 2019 7,535 1 View

Best protocol for extraction of bacterial DNA from feces with CTAB method?

I am trying to extract bacterial DNA from feces and cecum from mice, to then do PCR. I initially tried with phenol-chloroform and did not succeed. I had better results with CTAB, but the DNA band...

01 January 1970 6,572 3 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 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

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

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...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

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...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View