How to minimise the risk of being abused the profile of potential participants tagged in a social media post?

Dear colleagues, I got this one in one project I did ethics review. It's great to hear about your thoughts/experiences. "Doing an open recruitment online (i.e., via Facebook) requires public...

22 February 2021 3,322 3 View

How to calculate age-standardized prevalence ratio with 95%CI?

I need to calculate the prevalence ratios to show the trend of prevalence of a drug group used by pregnant women over the years (2001-2018). I would like to use the year 2001 with age distribution...

05 January 2021 7,986 5 View

Does CD31 indicate cell viability?

Hi, I am wondering if the immunofluorescent staining of CD31 antibodies can both mark endothelial cells and indicating their viability. In other words, if I perform immunofluorescent staining for...

23 December 2020 5,815 4 View

How to increase titer of Herpesvirus, Adenovirus?

I'm working with Herpesvirus and Adenovirus. For Herpesvirus, I use Vero cell line to activate and check virus titer. For Adenovirus, I use Hela cell line. Recently, I could activate them, but...

16 December 2020 4,073 5 View

How big can a enhancer deletion be ? how can we obtain homologous deletion clone ?

Hi all, I have tried to use Crispr Cas9 ( plasmid px333_cas9_mCherry) to delete some enhancers. I designed sgRNA using Chopchop website to target both sides of an enhancer to induce homologous...

13 December 2020 942 3 View

ELISA detection cytokine in human serum (common dilution fold)?

Hi everyone, I'm gonna try to detect the IL-10, IFN-y, TGF-beta1 level in the human serum by ELISA. I bought the ELISA set from the BD contain Capture Ab, Detection Ab, Enzyme reagent, Standards....

09 December 2020 3,369 5 View

How to calculate the fractional vegetation cover (FVC) from Landsat imagery?

Hi folks, I wonder if anyone know how to calculate the fractional vegetation cover (FVC) from Landsat imagery? As far as I have read about that NDVI, NDVIs, and NDVIv are three required input...

07 December 2020 4,054 2 View

Is it possible to identify/classify rubber using satellite imagery with machine learning?

As of now, I am trying to explore the potential of using high/very high-resolution satellite imagery with machine learning (ML) to identify or map forest cover (e.g. rubber). As a newbie in this...

17 November 2020 7,187 3 View

Cloudy brain samples in sucrose solution?

I have some samples I left in sucrose for a couple of weeks after perfusion and was wondering if these samples are still salvageable? I perfused the brain, then they were fixed in 4% pfa for 24...

15 November 2020 1,728 2 View

CDNA PCR problems: why did the sample without reverse transcriptase enzyme (band 5 in both two genes) have strong band with gen A?

Dear all, These are data from gel base of cDNA sample for PCR with protocol attached on the figure. Band 5 is no reverse transcriptase enzyme during doing cDNA library used random primer. With gen...

04 October 2020 8,774 4 View

Interested to stain mice tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, anybody has a protocol to recommend?

Interested to stain mice brain tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, appreciate if anyone willing to offer me some guidance or suggestions! Thank you!

28 February 2021 3,951 2 View

B-mercaptoethanol (BME) protocol?

Hi everybody, I have been running a multiplex IHC which allow me to stain the same tissue with different markers (Primary Ab + Secondary conjugated Ab) (AF487, AF555, AF647). Since I would like to...

27 February 2021 5,028 2 View

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

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

Why my agarose gel staining sometimes looks not homogenic but like gradient (see the figure)?

I am worried about this overexposure of the upper part of the gel in the picture. Is it possible that this is the result of too much concentration of ethidium bromide? Why is there such a big...

25 February 2021 8,140 3 View

Markers of mitochondrial activity in FFPE tissues?

Hello everybody, Does someone have any experience with assessing/extimating mitochondrial activity on FFPE tissues? Precisely, no TOM20, ATP5B, etc: we are trying to get an approximative idea of...

24 February 2021 4,618 4 View

Can a Golgi-stained dendritic spines picture processed by Image J be directly used for publication?

24 February 2021 3,348 2 View

Is there an appropriate CD8 antibody for IHC-P for staining human breast cancer tissues?

Hello, We are planning on staining Formalin-fixed paraffin breast cancer tissue sections (FFPE) with CD8 Ab via immunofluorescence (Tissue IF). Based on our existing protocol and imaging...

24 February 2021 9,578 4 View

Reagents for histology slides?

Dear all, I am planning to study histology and want to do that at home. I have only stained a blood smear with Giemsa but now want to try a wider range of animal tissues. What reagents will I...

24 February 2021 5,430 3 View

Are there lab markers/pens resistant to Roti-Histol?

Hi, I'm looking for a pen/marker to write on the smooth, transparent (non-frosted) part of microscopy slides which does not get washed away by alcohols and most importantly Roti-Histol. I want to...

24 February 2021 9,902 5 View