How to prevent getting fragmented villi structure in HE staining of small intestine sections?

I am trying to perform HE staining of small intestine. I used OCT solution to make sections. After HE staining when I look my slides under microscope, I do not get intact villi. In much of the...

01 February 2020 5,792 3 View

Is there any method to measure serum protein besides ELISA?

We are currently working on a cytosolic protein; however, we think that this protein also has a secreted form and can be detected in the bloodstream. As there is no ELISA kit available for this...

01 February 2020 302 2 View

Can stimulatory signal induce binding of two overexpressed proteins in HEK293T cells?

I want to study whether two proteins: Myc-tagged protein A and Flag-tagged protein B, interacts with each other or not. For that I co-expressed these proteins in HEK293T cells, and later (after 48...

01 February 2019 1,783 4 View

Can HEK293T cells be used to study non-direct interaction between exogenously induced mouse proteins?

I want to determine whether protein A and protein B interacts with each other by co-immunoprecipitation analysis. For that I prepared Myc-tagged protein A and Flag-tagged protein B plasmid DNAs. I...

01 February 2019 844 4 View

Do immortalized BMDM can be purchased commercially?

I am just wondering whether different labs prepare immortalized bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDM) in their labs. I have experience of preparing primary BMDM from mice femur, but have no idea...

31 December 2018 8,803 2 View

Endogenous IP vs expressed IP?

I have been working on two proteins. And I think that these two proteins interact with each other. To prove that, I analyzed there association by endogenous IP, but unfortunately I could not get...

11 December 2018 9,618 4 View

Why books contain only references but no citations?

Articles published in journals contains both reference and citation, while books contain only reference. Does anybody have idea about it?

09 October 2018 786 0 View

What is the function of EDTA in binding buffer for EMSA?

I just started to do EMSA to check interaction of a protein and DNA. When I checked the binding buffer used for EMSA, I found that EDTA is also used. I know that EDTA is a chelating agent, and...

04 May 2018 2,540 1 View

How can I increase the yield of primary microglia harvest?

I have been recently trying to isolate primary microglia from mice pups brain (P0-P1). To prepare mixed microglia culture, I used 3 brains for a 75 cm2 flask. After around 10-12 days, astrocyte...

03 April 2018 3,654 12 View

How can we increase Lenti-virus titre?

Currently, I am doing knockdown of certain genes by shRNA technique. We use lenti-virus for this process. The problem is that we are getting low titre. The experimental procedure is: Day 1: Seed 7...

04 May 2017 2,303 6 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 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

Can linear DNA be used as template for site-directed mutagenesis?

Is it possible to induce site-directed substitution mutation by quick-change method on linear dsDNA? or it has to be cloned in some vector? If yes, should it be treated with the Dpn1 enzyme...

03 March 2021 401 4 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View