Is it possible to perform cardiac puncture followed by PBS perfusion with a pump?

Hello all, I will be perfusing mice with PBS for brain harvest and a colleague would like to collect the blood via cardiac puncture (these are 18m old mice so would be nice to maximize use). Has...

15 February 2021 5,312 2 View

What is the difference between blocking buffer tbs vs. pbs and which should I use?

Hi everybody! I am doing western blots on bovine mammary epithelial cells to determine casein. We have two types of blocking buffer in the lab. PBS:...

01 February 2021 9,278 5 View

What types of tubes should I use for allantoin assay?

Hi everyone, I am doing an allantoin assay in urine and all the protocols seem pretty vague. I am currently using this website which seems to be the most helpful:...

07 January 2021 8,023 3 View

What is growing inside a frozen 10X Ripa buffer?

Hello all! I have a strange question today...I noticed that a few of my aliquotted 10x RIPA buffers that were in the -20 C had some kind of potential mold (white balls, some clusters, some with...

20 December 2020 7,424 3 View

Prediction of novel precursor miRNAs in viral genomes?

Dear, I performed a multi-sequence alignment (MSA) with all the complete genome sequences of SARS-related viruses. I then used RNALalifold from the ViennaRNA package, with default parameters, to...

06 December 2020 1,704 3 View

What are these called?

Upon tissue plating for cell isolation, I start to see fibroblasts and after a while these 3D structures start to form. Are they called stroma? Someone in my building told me that she calls them...

30 November 2020 8,685 4 View

Plated Secretory Tissue from Udder--What type of cells are these?

Hello all! I plated some secretory tissue from the udder of a dairy cow. I am trying to isolate mammary epithelial cells. I found these cells on one of my plates, are these developing mammary...

28 October 2020 7,768 3 View

How difficult is Lysosensor to use in the lab?

How difficult is Lysosensor to use in a basic cell culture wet lab? Does anybody happen to have any advice and/or experience with this or similar probes? Thanks in advance!

15 September 2020 8,730 7 View

Quand est ce qu'un chercheur peut-il se sentir satisfait de ses publications?

18 May 2020 7,762 2 View

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18 May 2020 6,271 2 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 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

Which fluorescent dye to use for measuring total ROS production?

Is DCFDA appropriate for measuring total ROS production, or can it only detect certain types of ROS? If I want to measure total ROS production, which dye should I use?

01 March 2021 9,447 3 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

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

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

No amplification data for qPCR on MxPro?

I have set up a qPCR run on MxPro with SYBR green and ROX as a reference, however, when I go to the analysis section the program seems to only collect data for the dissociation curves and not the...

25 February 2021 8,039 1 View

How to replicate the well conditions of a crystal hit with 20%(w/v) isopropanol?

I had a crystal hit in a well with 0.1M HEPEs pH 7.5, 10%(w/v) PEG 4000, and 20%(w/v) isopropanol. Why is isopropanol in w/v here if it's just solvent? How do I recreate this well condition?

25 February 2021 9,761 1 View