Has annyone try to reuse EveryBlot Blocking Buffer (Bio-rad) for fluorescence western blotting?

Hello to every one, Our lab has recently switched our western blot technique from chemiluminescence to fluorescence. Therefore, we have to optimize the blocking buffer. We have successfully try...

05 February 2021 7,886 1 View

Has anybody a protocol to determine the AChE activity in larvae zebrafish brain?

Even following the instruction of Karnovsky and Roots (1964), I still do not know how long I should fix the larvae and in what fixative. Could anyone help me? Thank you!

14 January 2021 385 2 View

Women learning styles/ Women cognition development- Any suggestions for research based on Belenky's work?

I'm looking to expand my sources on the topic

10 December 2020 5,426 17 View

Does anyone have experience with movement-based kernel density estimation (MKDE)?

Hello, I have mapped the locations of several individuals of a certain species of bird. I have the GPS coordinates, the date and the time data every half hour for several consecutive days and I am...

26 September 2020 3,712 2 View

Do you know how long it takes for a polyprepylene surgical mask to degrade?

I'm a master student in the university of Geneva. I have to find a scientific paper of the degradation of the surgical mask to add it in my master's thesis. I only found non-scientific journals...

03 September 2020 2,940 3 View

Any suggestion of bibliography in a wide sense (papers, guidelines, systematized experiences) about "male" parenting (fathering)?

Any suggestion of bibliography in a wide sense (papers, guidelines, systematized experiences) about "male" parenting (fathering) and in special in the context of children and adolescents with...

23 February 2020 8,306 3 View

Optimization with Pulp vs Pyomo, any experience?

I have been using PuLP for years and I wonder if refactoring to Pyomo will be faster and/or more reliable, any advice? Thanks in advance!

05 February 2020 3,577 2 View

How can I get an homogeneus suspension of Bacillus subtilis?

I have different plates with different strains. The next step consists of doing a suspension of each microorganism. I do not have any problem with E. coli, S. aureus, etc, but I do with B....

29 January 2020 8,348 1 View

Why is my protein purification not working?

31 December 2019 3,899 4 View

Flow cytometry -advance pipeline & compensation?

Hii! So I designed for my next experiments a quite complex panel and I have a few questions about how better proceed for treating my Abs and building my compensation. So I have a Fixable...

14 November 2019 6,590 3 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Sutter electrode holder leaking after applying positive pressure. How to fix?

I am using a Sutter electrode holder for my patch clamp experiments, but I'm having trouble keeping positive pressure inside my electrode due to a leak out of the back of the holder. I have added...

02 March 2021 5,829 1 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 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

Has anyone had luck using cell lines other than HEK 293 (such as COS1) to package lentivirus?

I am looking to package lentivirus in endothelial cells but I am opposed to using 293 cells due to personal ethics regarding the source. I have done some reading and saw that COS1, COS7, & CHO...

25 February 2021 3,030 1 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 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