Why different HCV patients with same genotype respond differently to interferon and Ribaviron combination?

can any explain some genetic differences responsible for EVR,RVR,SVR and NVR

02 March 2015 7,028 9 View

What is minimum requirement of Oxygen pressure for human breathing?

10 November 2014 4,837 2 View

Can we use DNA extracted from serum for Polymorphism analysis?

09 October 2014 1,836 3 View

Can we extract human DNA from Plasma ?

I have plasma samples and want to extract human DNA ,is to possible to extract the DNA from plasma ?

09 October 2014 9,314 20 View

How we can design a best primer for polymorphism investigation?

what are the normal values of parameters used in Primer designing ?

07 August 2014 8,421 2 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

Is stone a sustainable material? Is it a sustainable approach to use natural stone waste in architecture?

I'm designing a zero-waste restaurant and considering using marble waste to make some tables and a bar countertop. My clients think it's not "sustainable enough" and I would like to have more...

01 March 2021 4,326 7 View

How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View

Microstrip antenna design tutorial of HFSS 3D layout module ?

I have designed a 24 GHz rectangular antenna on HFSS 3D model and got desired results while desing the same antenna with same dimensions I am getting resonance frequency at 27 GHz I am...

28 February 2021 4,426 2 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View