OpenBCI eeg--has anyone used them?

I'm looking to try out an off-the-shelf EEG set for some exploratory work. Curious if anyone has used the OpenBCI, and how much set-up work is required. I've heard they are more difficult to get...

01 March 2021 4,128 3 View

Quality of antibodies from Creative Biolabs?

It seems Creative Biolabs has everything and so many versions of antibodies not owned or sold by any other company. How reliable are their products? I am looking for a clone where potentially...

08 February 2021 2,167 3 View

Benefit of CTCF (corrected total cell fluorescence)?

03 February 2021 6,302 2 View

Why do the absorbance values of different concentrations of ascorbic acid solutions mixed with DPPH free radicals stay constant?

26 January 2021 458 14 View

Interpreting regression findings prior to inclusion of control variable?

I'm looking for advice on interpreting a statistical relationship - it's for a paper I am reviewing. (Variable names have been changed). It was found that: [IV anxiety + control variables y and...

06 January 2021 558 3 View

Can someone help me with an extraction protocol?

Hi all, Does anyone have a protocol for extracting DNA from agarose that is only 120 bp without a kit? The protocols I have tried are for much larger fragments and it is just not working. Thank you!

10 September 2020 1,291 2 View

Advice for getting dermatopathology tissue to stick to slides during immunostaining?

I work in a veterinary pathology lab and we do immunohistochemistry staining by hand on all types of tissues that are FFPE. We have particular difficulty getting dermatopathology (skin) samples to...

26 August 2020 792 1 View

Validation of experimental results?

Is it neccessary to perfrom validation of process model established using a box-benkhen experimental design? How "big mistake" will it be if I finish the experiment after performing the runs...

24 August 2020 6,917 3 View

Any reliable protocols for tissue detection of DNA damage with IHC or IF?

Dear all, Hope as a community your are doing fine. I have a question regarding antibodies against gH2AX, XRCC1 and p53bp1 that have worked for tissue detection for either IHC or IF, using...

08 June 2020 1,461 3 View

Where can I find the parameters of Miltenyi gentleMACS protocols?

I'm planning to use a Miltenyi brain tumour dissociation kit, but without the gentleMACS machine. Does anyone know where I can find the parameters of the machine's programs/protocols?...

16 December 2019 6,150 1 View

How vaccines of covid 19 work?

Millions ask how vaccines of covid 19 be successful and safe, its here to explain generally how vaccine of pfizer work ,mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein that will trigger an...

28 February 2021 2,723 4 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...

28 February 2021 7,370 3 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

How to replicate the well conditions of a crystal hit with 20%(w/v) isopropanol?

I had a crystal hit in a well with 0.1M HEPEs pH 7.5, 10%(w/v) PEG 4000, and 20%(w/v) isopropanol. Why is isopropanol in w/v here if it's just solvent? How do I recreate this well condition?

25 February 2021 9,761 1 View

Best plasmid could be used as a standard curve for AAV titration?

I have been trying to have a good AAV titration for my production and I have tried different plasmids to set up as a standard curve but each one behaves differently. i am trying to use ITR for...

23 February 2021 5,167 3 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

How to control the variants vof covid 19 in second and third waves?

A the world find means to control covid 19 by vaccination ,new variants came to spread and make the world in fear and danger, to understand the conduct of these variants, es constantly change...

21 February 2021 3,080 6 View

Surprisingly low antibody titers against SASRS-COV-2 RBD in hamsters compared to mice?

21 February 2021 6,958 2 View

Does anyone have a working Guanidine Hydrochloride purification protocol for synthesized ssRNA?

I am trying to in vitro transcribe some fluorescein labeled ssRNA. And I want to purify the ssRNA from the free NTPs and the enzymes (RNA polymerase and DNase I). Due to the characteristic of the...

18 February 2021 4,392 4 View

Purification of proteins from baculovirus-infected insect cells?

18 February 2021 6,665 6 View