EMSA troubleshooting. Protein-DNA complex not migrating, cold probe lane with multiple bands. Can anyone help?

I'm running an EMSA to show the DNA binding activity of recombinant proteins versus the Wild type. Previous assays run by my research group using a different test system show the protein-DNA...

24 February 2021 8,325 1 View

Why is my qPCR suddently not working?

I've been working with qPCR for some months now. I amplify 2 genes (PSEN2 and HN1), and the protocols are optimized for both and have been working fine. The other day I amplified HN1 for some...

21 February 2021 3,437 3 View

Can ethanol be used as an analgesic?

If ethanol has analgesic properties, why isn't it used for clinical purposes?

18 February 2021 8,227 4 View

Acid phenol:chloroform (25:24:1) for RNA extraction instead of (125:24:1)?

Hi everyone! I am about to extract RNA for RNA sequencing assays and my Invitrogen kit/protocol...

14 February 2021 1,755 3 View

Are there any public datasets of consumer complaints about service industries at the European level?

06 January 2021 1,718 2 View

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16 December 2020 9,657 5 View

Tools for analysis of interaction between lncRNAs and proteins/miRNAs?

Hi! I would like to know what tools I could use to analyze interactions between a new lncRNA and possible protein/miRNA targets. The biggest problem I had to find such tools is that the RNA we...

20 November 2020 8,331 3 View

I would like to ask some questions about concentrations of Urea 3M and 8M in two experiments?

I would like to ask if anyone knows if concentrations of Urea 3M and 8M can interfere with protein purification at Ni-NTA and Glutathione Sepharose 43 resins. Another question, Urea, at 3M and 8M...

17 November 2020 5,014 3 View

I would like to ask if anyone among you knows what is the ideal concentration of TFA to use at a chemical synthesis of peptides?

During a chemical synthesis of peptides by the F-moc method, the following happened: all the initial steps of the synthesis occurred as planned, but in the cleavage, TFA is used. In the lab, there...

02 November 2020 2,997 8 View

Can I use generalized linear mixed model to "fix" data absence?

I have some data of the diet of an omnivorous fish diet collected over 20 years. This data is divided in two seasons, the dry period (drought) and the wet period (flood), and I want to analyze the...

10 October 2020 6,546 6 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

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

How to make fractions of chloroform extract of plant, using seperating funnel?

28 February 2021 8,466 2 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

How to calculate the fraction metabolized of a drug by an enzyme using clearance(ml/min) values of the metabolite formed?

I am trying to find the fraction metabolized of a drug by CYP and UGT enzymes. I am unable to get the values of fraction metabolized (Fm) directly from the literature. Can we calculate the Fm of a...

21 February 2021 5,379 2 View

How to convert 2D stack images to 3D to obtain surface area of nucleus?

I have 15 slices of the nucleus at different z-heights from confocal imaging. I would like to use these slices to reconstruct the 3D nucleus and ultimately estimate the surface area of the...

20 February 2021 6,967 1 View

Is my GFAP staining in right position?

I was differentiate hESC to astrocyte. In the second week of differentiation, I stained my cell with s100beta and GFAP. I expected that the staining site of GFAP would come from the cytoplasm,...

15 February 2021 8,982 1 View

Does anyone have any experience with the Motic EasyScan Pro Slide Scanner?

I am interested in purchasing a slide scanner for histology and was presented with the Motic EasyScan Pro but I have never heard of the company, nor know of anyone who has used the system. Can...

11 February 2021 2,416 2 View

How can I calculate volume fraction of MWCNT from a nano hybrid composite ?

I am adding 0.1wt percent MWCNT to glass fiber epoxy composite and want to determine the volume fraction of the MWCNT from this composite but I don't know how to calculate it. can anyone help me...

09 February 2021 8,883 3 View

Fractional derivative users, are you on the same page with me on the validity of the fractional order parameter, say alpha?

Taking a fractional ODE problem as an example. It has come to my attention that if the fractional order parameter is in the interval (0,1], many only presents results for alpha=0.9, 0.99. I saw...

08 February 2021 9,671 3 View