Why doesn't my RNA loading look uniform?

I am running formaldehyde-agarose gel electrophoresis to perform non-radioactive northern blotting. I know northern blotting is a very old story now, however, I am trying to study different...

21 September 2020 8,153 4 View

How to design "A Tunable RF Front-End With Narrowband Antennas for Mobile Devices" ?

I don't know how to design the architecture using the PCB board and how to test the fabricated prototype ? can you help me out of this issue?

17 December 2019 9,068 4 View

Between Julia and MATLAB, which would be the most efficient for a discontinuous Galerkin FEM code?

I need to simulate a 2-D problem with DGFEM. I have been advised to use C/C++ for a code that delivers quick and efficient results, however, I am not very comfortable with them, and my base code...

16 December 2019 7,001 5 View

Can total energy Vs k-mesh increase to higher values in DFT-VASP?

I am performing DFT calculations on halide perovskites using VASP code. I began my calculations on CsPbI3 where I took 6.2 Angstrom as lattice parameter and built the cubic structure in VESTA....

16 September 2018 9,316 6 View

Can you please suggest a good bioinformatics textbook/guide for gaining expertise on multiple sequence alignments?

Hello all, I am looking for recommendations on a good bioinformatics textbook/guide which helps me gain sound background knowledge on multiple sequence alignments. A part of my research is to...

31 October 2017 1,582 3 View

96 well plate procedure for TPC and TFC?

31 January 2017 2,927 4 View

How can I minimize the air bubbles during a western blot wet transfer?

Hello everyone, I am right now facing the issue of air bubbles during the western blot wet transfer method. It is so frustrating that some silly air bubbles mess up the whole results. This is what...

20 March 2015 6,082 27 View

How can I induce DNA damage using Temozolomide?

Hi all, I am currently studying activation of PARP after inducing DNA damage. The method I follow is: 1) exposing tumor cells (HCT116, HeLa cells) and MEFs (WT and S12) to DNA damaging agent...

01 March 2015 3,311 3 View

Can anyone explain to me about tagged western blotting?

I am curious about the tagged western blotting, where, proteins are probed on a nitrocellulose/PVDF membrane with HIS-tag/GST-tag primary antibody initially, and later with a corresponding...

01 March 2015 6,492 3 View

What is the BRCA status of the colon cancer cell line HCT116?

I am trying to put together the BRCA and p53 status of various cell lines like HeLa, WT/S12 MEFs, HCC1937, MDAM231, MCF7, HCT116. I was able to get the statuses of every other cell line, but just...

30 November 2014 2,838 3 View

How can I represent SDS-PAGE results for machine learning analysis?

I am trying to classify and analyze the results of an SDS-PAGE based array for bacterial detection using machine learning, but I have trouble finding the best way to represent the results with...

27 February 2021 9,176 3 View

Why my agarose gel staining sometimes looks not homogenic but like gradient (see the figure)?

I am worried about this overexposure of the upper part of the gel in the picture. Is it possible that this is the result of too much concentration of ethidium bromide? Why is there such a big...

25 February 2021 8,140 3 View

EMSA troubleshooting. Protein-DNA complex not migrating, cold probe lane with multiple bands. Can anyone help?

I'm running an EMSA to show the DNA binding activity of recombinant proteins versus the Wild type. Previous assays run by my research group using a different test system show the protein-DNA...

24 February 2021 8,325 1 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

Has anyone tried to scan fluorescence IHC slides with microarray scanner?

I have an old slide microarray scanner (VIDAR Revolution 4200) and would like to give it a "second life", as IHC scanner array (fluorescence dyes), FISH over tissue or similar. Has anyone tried...

24 February 2021 9,210 1 View

How to manage western blot for proteomics data validation?

Hi Everyone, I am a bigginer in western blotting and I am trying to use it for validation of my proteomics data. I have: two regulated proteins with molecular mass of 40 and 73 kDa one control...

23 February 2021 6,671 4 View

Alginate and silk fibroin hydrogels toxic to cells?

Hello, I asm currently working with alginate and silk fibroin hydrogels. I prepared a blend of alginate and aqueous silk fibroin (straight from dialysis) and resorted to ionic crosslinking to...

23 February 2021 8,249 2 View

Diltuions for a Western blot?

I need help using the equation C1V1=C2V2 figuring out how much antibody to add to use for a western blot. The stock was origianlly 3.45 ng/ul but diluted 1:10 so now its 0.345 ng/ul. I need to run...

22 February 2021 9,901 3 View

Why the nucleic acid gel melted after running for 30min?

Hi all, I proceed with nucleic acid gel electrophoresis recently several times, but a wried phenomenon is they always melted after running over 30min. My gel concentration is 1% percentage...

22 February 2021 9,896 3 View

Sanger Sequencing results not matching experimental results of Restriction Digestion, colony PCR and protein expression?

I have cloned two domains of a gene into two bacterial vectors using cut and paste cloning with different RE sites. I checked the putative clones by colony PCR and Restriction Digestion (fallouts...

18 February 2021 6,736 4 View