Help needed: How to map AA, AG, and GG genotypes on to polymorphism information?

Dear Colleagues, I am new to genes and genotyping and I need help. I am trying to figure our how AA, AG, and GG genotypes map on to A1 for DRD2/ANKK1 Taq1A polymorphism(rs1800497) and Val or MET...

02 February 2021 3,861 3 View

Can anyone explain why my starters are amplifying sequence from human genome instead of HPV16?

Hello, I'm working on primers from the publication: Okodo M, Okayama K, Teruya K, Sasagawa T. Uniplex E6/E7 PCR method detecting E6 or E7 genes in 39 human papillomavirus types. J Med Virol....

24 January 2021 7,636 3 View

Mounted sample stained with organic dyes (eg Alexa647) for superresolution?

I am looking for a way to prepare a mounted bio sample for testing superresolution methods, such as fixed cell culture. So far, most protocols I found for Alexa647 and other dyes require liquid...

12 January 2021 6,040 3 View

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04 January 2021 3,293 1 View

Can I add or delete studies from systematic review during revision stage of paper publication?

I have conducted a systematic review and one of the reviewers had mentioned about missing out on some good studies from the sample. on the surface the study is on a different topic but after an...

21 December 2020 573 4 View

What is the glucose content in Cellic CTec2?

Hi, I've determined the glucose content in Cellic CTec2 enzyme blend and it is 12-14 mg per 100 mg of enzyme blend. Could anyone share with me your results so I can compare it with mine?

08 December 2020 6,312 3 View

Paper authorship for students?

I had a few students help me with a simple but time-consuming task. The data they helped with will be used in a scientific paper. The students are part of the Student Research Program (SRP) at my...

11 October 2020 4,514 12 View

What is in common household dust?

Hi there, I am an undergraduate student in the UK and started to work on my dissertation, my subject is around common household dust. However, I can't seem to find any articles on basic and...

08 October 2020 6,838 1 View

I could not find a publication that fits the idea of evaporation together with DPD. Any suggestions?

I did find some papers that incorporate the two ideas together but I could not follow the research methodology. The simulation results were remarkable but not self explanatory. I tried to follow...

20 September 2020 5,354 4 View

How can I find out the molecular weight of acid chloride?

Dear all,, I am working on fatty acid chloride. So I wanted to find out the molecular weight of fatty acid chloride? So it is possible to find out using GPC or GCMS or there is any tritiometric...

06 September 2020 5,139 6 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 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

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 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

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

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