How do I troubleshoot this solubility problem of PLGA nanoparticle loaded with protein and prepared by Double emulsion method?

05 June 2015 9,706 5 View

How can one use DIPEA for deprotonation of primary amine groups in polyethylenimine for protein conjugation?

31 December 2014 415 2 View

How do you determine the number of carboxyl groups in a Graphene oxide?

I wish to know the amount of carboxyl groups in graphene oxide for a conjugation experiment. Is there any technique like acid base titration? If so can anyone provide a protocol for that?

09 October 2014 698 3 View

How can I calculate the degree of thiolation of a material containing free thiol group using Ellman's test?

I have prepare thiolated PEI and I want to know the degree of thiolation. So I did the ellman's test with cysteine as the standard. Now how to calculate the degree of thiolation from this...

05 June 2014 1,423 1 View

Is a copper II acetate test meant for checking the primary and secondary amine groups in a polymer?

Ninhydrin is used for testing the primary, secondary, and tertiary amines of synthetic cationic polymer or protein. Is the copper II acetate test only meant for primary and secondary amines in the...

04 May 2014 3,452 1 View

How can I calculate the DNA bp: dye ratio?

I have YOYO-1 dye and I want to add dye at 5:1 ratio. And I am using a plasmid of length 5411 bp. Please tell me how to calculate this ratio to get a volume of dye to be added to DNA of 1 microgram.

01 February 2014 1,444 2 View

Is there a way to separate free dye from fluorescently Labelled DNA?

I need to conduct a FRET analysis with labelled plasmid DNA and I am using YOYO-1 dye. I need to remove the free dye from the solution and get only the labelled DNA. Is there any technique with...

31 December 2013 8,505 1 View

Can 2% SDS be used as a reaction buffer for Ellman's test?

For a Free Thiol assay, I wanted to used DTNB and a reaction buffer. But since some materials for making reaction buffer is not available. I wanted to use SDS as reaction buffer.

31 December 2013 3,900 1 View

RNA gel electrophoresis - denaturing or non-denaturing??

If I want to just look at the RNA integrity (of RNA stored in -80 for more than a year), should I go for denaturing or non-denaturing electrophoresis? I've seen most people use formaldehyde gels...

02 March 2013 6,224 16 View

How to analyse agilent microarray data using MATLAB?

Using the 2012b version of MATLAB, I wish to know how to import the data and analyse the data for normalization, fold change analyses and background correction.

11 December 2012 9,519 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