Does anyone know where to order the dye Direct Yellow 96 (Solophenyl flavine) in Europe ?

I cannot find any supplier in Europe of this dye. Than you !

04 October 2020 9,305 2 View

How to perform contigs alignment to an homologous chloroplast reference?

I recovered an N amount of putative chloroplast contigs (fasta format). I need to align them to a reference genome and there is no reference genome of my species. Fortunately, there is a reference...

20 August 2020 1,162 3 View

488 laser emission crosstalk?

Image shows green fluorescence but no green fluorochrome was used in this specimen (HEK 293 cells), only Hoechst (350 nm absorption). Lasers used: 350 (upper right), 488 (upper left) and 568...

10 March 2020 7,321 3 View

Have you worked on a research project of Artificial intelligence?

At UMNG We are currently working on a Project of artificial intelligence from different prospective including ethical and legal consequences as well as artificial intelligence applied to education...

11 February 2019 1,821 3 View

Apathy and impulsivity scales for Parkison Disease?

16 March 2016 8,481 4 View

Have you ever thought why after reading 50 papers (including narrative reviews) about a research topic you don't even know all the variables affecting the process?

Why is information missing in the articles?

05 July 2013 6,483 4 View

Sites for exchange of skills or access to equipment.

Does anybody know if there is something similar to this but for UK based labs? https://www.scienceexchange.com/welcome

12 February 2013 9,383 2 View

Anyone know how I can lyse an amoeba without damaging the bacteria inside?

Viability assays

17 January 2013 5,147 2 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 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

Expression cloning by using cDNA,do I need to modify the cDNA first?

I am going to have a expression cloning of mammalian gene by using shuttle plasmid to transforming the E.coli However I don't know I should only inserting the Coding sequence ,or I can...

28 February 2021 5,440 3 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

Anyone that can help with details in phosphopeptides enrichment?

Anyone know the amount of protein before enzymatic digestion for phosphopeptides enrichment of serume sample in Ti-IMAC? Has anyone ever use Ti-IMAC(the material is from Chinese company named...

28 February 2021 7,310 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

Did anyone ever try using pLVX-TetOne Plasmid with a copGFP as a selection marker instead of Puromycin?

When using a lentiviral vector for inducible expression of genes using the Tet-On system. In the literature, I saw a widely used of pLVX-TetOne-Puro Plasmid, is there a reason why people prefer to...

25 February 2021 1,011 3 View

Why do the PCR bands from the cDNA templates (extraction from the cell after transfection) show different size from the band of the plasmid template?

After transfection with the plasmid ( linearized ) and subcloning of the cell lines, RNA was extracted from the cell and then reverse transcripted to cDNA. When PCR reactions were run to verify...

25 February 2021 5,712 3 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

Problem with ligating 2.8 kb insert into 8.5 kb plasmid?

I am trying to clone 2 copies of the same mammalian gene into the pSF-CMV-Ub-Puro Ascl (contains HindIII, KpnI and NheI cut sites) plasmid. This is what the final product is supposed to look like...

24 February 2021 6,310 3 View