How to keep DRG neuron cultures at the center of the plate?

After plating the neurons look okay but they all migrate and clump at the edge of the plate. How can I keep them at the center of the well? I am using the 6-well plate. I was told to place a drop...

07 August 2019 5,538 3 View

Any good BDNF antibody against human and mouse tissue for Western blot?

Since Santa Cruz discontinued their awesome rabbit antibodies a year ago, I have yet to find a replacement. Any recommendation on antibodies for Western blot? The antibody must recognize the...

31 December 2017 6,766 5 View

Best transfection method for primary keranitocyte cultures?

What is the best transfection method for RNAi or CRISPR/Cas9 on primary keratinocytes? What is the maximum efficiency achieved?

10 November 2017 5,884 5 View

Gene expression profiling (gene chip) vs. RNA-seq

Need to conduct gene expression studies using cell lines (treated with a drug vs. no treatment). Is one method better than the other? Cost is a consideration too. Also want to know how many...

07 August 2017 9,845 5 View

What is the best marker to distinguish radial glia from neural progenitor cells?

Need to do immunofluorescent staining on human tissue.

03 April 2016 5,482 3 View

What is the best method to analyze clonal architecture of cancer based on whole-exome or targe panel sequencing data?

01 February 2016 9,528 3 View

How can I measure MMP-1 protein activity or protein level from liver tissue?

Instead of checking only the mRNA level, I want to check the active protein level of MMP-1 in Liver tissue from mice. How can I do that?

03 March 2021 1,763 2 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 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

IHC on mouse liver hepatocytes?

Can anyone help me choose primary antibodies for mouse liver hepatocytes and also in conjunction Cd8 cells. Also Cd3 cells. I want to look at hepatocytes and adjacent immune cells in mice with...

01 March 2021 6,953 1 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

How to avoid ulcers in s.c. injected tumors ?

Recently, we have injected s.c. B16F10 tumor cells in BL/6 mice. At around 12-15th day some animals showed ulcerations in tumors , with a big hole in the middle (it looks like a volcano). We have...

01 March 2021 9,938 3 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

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