Virginia Aragon

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Why are most people doing TFM using gels of stiffness in the KPa range? Stiffness of BM measured by ATM is in the MPa range. What am I missing here?

I am designing experiments to measure contractile forces of endothelial cells in response to certain stimuli. To start I have been reading a lot about Traction Force Microscopy (TFM) and noticed...

08 September 2015 495 0 View

Can multiple radio-labeled probes be used at the same time for PET imaging?

If different isotopes (11-C, 89-Zr, 64Cu) are used to label different antibodies, can they all be used at the same time during PET imaging? Or because all of them undergo Beta+ decay and produce...

22 May 2014 7,733 9 View

Can someone advise on Affinity vs. Dynamic Affinity?

I have been reading some papers regarding the dynamics of receptor-ligand binding for my project and have come across this term "dynamic affinity" quite often and I am wondering if it actually has...

18 October 2013 6,568 2 View

Microrheology experiment design - can anyone help?

Does anyone know how to determine what the correct bead size for a microrheology experiment should be?

14 October 2013 8,319 3 View

Any suggestions for establishing a Tetracycline inducible mammalian cell line using the TRex system from Invitrogen?

For the last couple of months I have been trying to establish an inducible HaCaT cell line using the TRex system from Invitrogen. I am following the standard protocol (first transfect with...

29 January 2013 5,254 15 View