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How make a series of oil separate into layers?

I want to make a solution in which a series of different oils are mixed (agitated) and then revert to a separate layer looking formation. The same way oil and water by itself would do. I have...

05 June 2017 4,443 5 View

How to perform DNA extraction from gel where no EtBr was added to visualize position?

I'm trying to establish if a mutation performed on a specific gene worked. I know the size of my gene in question and will eventually send it for sequencing. I don't need to clone it just...

08 August 2016 1,553 4 View

How to perform DNA extraction from gel where no EtBr was added to visualize position?

I'm trying to establish if a mutation performed on a specific gene worked. I know the size of my gene in question and will eventually send it for sequencing. I don't need to clone it just...

07 August 2016 8,499 5 View

What skill-set do you consider, as a professional, a biochemistry undergraduate should have to be considered proficient?

Please don't tell me how you need a Master's because an undergrad is nothing these days. There are some very strong undergrads who have a greater familiarity with a lab setting than many Master's...

06 July 2016 7,102 1 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

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

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,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

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...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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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

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Can thermal cycler machines be problematic during PCR?

Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...

26 February 2021 4,777 4 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View