Why do my MCFs not form monolayer?

Hello, I am looking for some expertise on culturing MCF7s. I purchased them from ATCC and I have been following all media and culture conditions. Media is EMEM with 10% FBS and 10ug/mL of...

27 February 2021 3,904 2 View

How does charge on working electrode changes with rising potential?

During performing CV of a GCE or modified GCE, we rise the potential in the first half of the cycle and reduce it in reverse half. During the first half, what is the nature of charge on GCE or...

25 February 2021 7,994 3 View

Can we measure porosity of a composite by DSC (heat flow measurements)?

In the DSC conducted for A and B (image provided). B is a derivative of A. Can I conclude that the porosity of composite B is more than A, Since the heat flow is decreasing with increase in...

26 December 2020 9,104 3 View

Can I carry out LC-MS for AuNPs?

Will it be helpful to know the nature of stabilizers used in synthesis of curcumin (if it has polymerized or not). Any specific measures to be followed to carry out these kind of experiments?

15 December 2020 2,283 4 View

Why I am not getting UV absorbance peak of AuNPs?

I synthesized Au deposited on graphite electrochemically by using chronopotentiometry. How much ever I tried I couldn't get UV absorbance peak of AuNPs in any number of solutions I tried? But when...

20 October 2020 2,040 5 View

Can i use surfactant C-TAB in extraction and detection of the aminaphthalene sulfonates by HPLC technique?

In the detection of Aminonaphthalene sulfonates the quaternary ammonium salts like Tetrabutyl ammonium bromide ,Triethyl ammonium acetates are used so the C-TAB being an quarternary ammonium...

21 September 2020 9,636 1 View

How to fill the gap between two contigs?

Hi everyone, We have sequenced genome of data of a comparatively less studied species using Pacbio long read sequencer. Now after initial assembly we compared the contigs with previous version...

25 June 2020 3,442 3 View

Which motion analysis software can give me this functionality to create some sort of kinematic model?

25 October 2019 2,556 6 View

Automation in ansys with load location as parameter?

What is the best way (in a way that ansys runs each job sequentially without manual command) to solve several problems (say 1000+) with exact same geometry and other solution parameters but...

07 October 2019 2,073 3 View

What is the best method to measure conduction band offset of heterojunction?

Conduction band offset of a heterojunction is important for device performance.

20 July 2019 3,581 3 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 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

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 View

How do I transfect a large plasmid into PC12 cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor?

I have a large 16 kb plasmid, which I need to transfect into PC12 cells. Lipofectamin 2000 didn't work and with GFP alone the transfection rate is very low. I also tried the neon invitrogen...

25 February 2021 6,635 5 View

What is a good reagent for lentiviral plasmid transfection in HeLa cells?

I have been using Lipofectamine 2000 but was hoping there may be a better protocol or one for something like Lipofectamine PLUS reagent.

24 February 2021 1,633 4 View

Why the cells die after stable transfection?

I tried stable transfection in the U87 cell line with the sgRNA-Cas9 All-in-One lentivector. Cells were cultured in a 6-well plate, 4ug plasmid was transfected after 24hs when the cell confluence...

22 February 2021 2,864 4 View

Is there a method for evaluating nanoparticle adhesion to epithelial tissue in vitro?

I want to measure how well nanoparticles can transfect cells based on NP adhesion properties. In the literature I find people do it in animal studies, and epithelial adhesion helps in transfection...

21 February 2021 7,791 3 View

Are exogenous molecules transferred between human cells during doubling ?

Hello RG community, I wonderer whether exogenous molecules (e.g. reporter plasmids, miRNAs or other artificial molecules) are transferred between cultured human cells during their doubling ? So,...

21 February 2021 6,633 3 View