Can anyone provide a detailed Congo red staining protocol for detecting amyloid aggregates in neuroblastoma cell culture please?

I plan to seed neuroblastoma cells. Differentiate them with retinoic acid, treat them with AB1-42 and then stain them with Congo red to observe amyloid aggregates in those cells. Thank you in...

31 December 2018 3,512 4 View

Is there a database that I can use to look into solubility and solvents of a chemical?

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07 August 2018 6,274 0 View

Holding my PhD degree before post-doc is a must?

I am going to finish my PhD research on December but I'm not allowed to defend my thesis until September for some special reason. Can I do a post-doc in that 6 months? if not what do you suggest...

05 June 2018 4,083 3 View

Do you have a detailed protocol for dissolving Abeta25-35 in DMSO?

Hello, I have no access to HFIP, and I already tried NH4OH method with little success. The ThT assay resaults did not make sense by this method. And AFM showed the 500 nm spheres were formed. Any...

08 September 2017 9,563 2 View

For peptide concentration determination, measured molar extinction coefficient or calculated one?

07 August 2017 2,786 4 View

Does the choice of solvent affect the molar extinction coefficient of a particular peptide?

Hi everybody, I am trying to determine peptide concentration by far-UV spectroscopy and I was wondering if different solvents (water, ammonium chloride,Ham's F-12 medium and PBS) that I use as...

06 July 2017 8,887 1 View

For transferring cell lines between laboratories in 2 hours distance should I keep the T-flask vertical or horizontal during communication?

01 February 2017 1,940 7 View

What is the best protein assay selection for a peptide as small as 1000 Da?

Which method is the best choice to determine protein concentration of amyloid beta peptide (25-35) with a molecular weight of 1060.28 g/mol? Is Bradford assay incompatible because it responds to...

01 January 1970 7,192 9 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

What are the most reliable approaches to extract key continuous frames from a video, with complete automation?

I have an input video, of skin (from a microscope that means it is magnified such that blood capillaries are visible). The idea is to extract 15 sec of continuous frames from a video of 1 min,...

02 March 2021 2,735 2 View

How can extract ciprofloxacin hydrochloride disolve in water er to organic solvent such as dichloromethan or any other solvent?

I need a procedure to extract the ciprofloxacin hydrochloride from aqueous solution by using dichloromethane in detail,. I thank you very much.

01 March 2021 4,306 1 View

Which bacteria are suitable for quorum sensing screening?

I want to find a quorum sensing inhibitor from plant extracts. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I looked for these strains...

01 March 2021 7,675 3 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 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 perform statistical analysis of coefficients extracted from transform techniques?

I am studying the potential of DCT and FFT coefficients extracted from a signal to classify the different objects that emit the signal. I applied the Shapiro-Wilk to confirm that data was not...

01 March 2021 8,079 2 View

What is the most suitable server for predicting protein structures in bacteria?

I have used the i-Tasser several times, however it has been unavailable for several days. I tried the swiss-model, but the output was not very pleasant due to the model used. Is there any other...

28 February 2021 4,521 3 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 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