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A need to analyse specific sequences gathered from genbank in order to analyse primers matching/designing. I have used Sequencher (gene codes) in the past and I loved it. Yet prices are now...
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I have so far disliked Taqs that come with dyes because dye concentration seems excessive to me. I have recently bought a Taq with dye-free buffer, I wonder if I can use a small bit of gel loading...
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Hi all. I have some primer pairs which always produce those horrible primer dimer bright smear! Increasing annealing temperature does not solve the problem. Any suggestiopn for a PCR enhancer or...
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Need do look for milk bacterial pathogens using PCR. Does anyone suggest me a good protocol for DNA extraction? I have heard milk proteins are difficult to deal with aabd act as taq inhibitors
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I am making tests for diagnostic PCRs. At the moment I am trying to standardize a pcr reaction for a circa 180 bp product. I did not get positive bands so far. Interestingly, I get what appears to...
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We would like to preserve RNA from mammal blood samples. Unfortunately the only product I am aware is RNA Later and it is very very expensive for our limited budget. Any ideas? Thank you very much
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Sorry basic question. I am aware primers should be described in the 5'-3' direction in the literature. When I am ordering primers I have taken from published papers, should I use the same sequence...
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Hi all, does any of you know of specific primers for both emetic and diarrhaeic forms of Bacillus cereus?
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We are currently having problems with PCR amplifations of a ~200bp gene fragment. We cannot see any product after a 35 cycles amplification round and usually use a simple reamplification protocol:...
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